Inguinal Hernias Represent the Most Frequent Surgical Complication after Kasai in Biliary Atresia Infants

Table 3

Study population and patients’ characteristics according to the appearance of inguinal hernias in children with biliary atresia.

Patients’ characteristics	All patients	Inguinal hernia	No inguinal hernia	value
Number of patients (%)	153 (100%)	30 (19.6%)	123 (80.4%)	—
Age at KPE <60 days (%)	89 (58.2%)	19 (63.3%)	70 (56.9%)	0.545
Intraoperative drainage (%)	78 (51.0%)	21 (70.0%)	57 (46.3%)	0.025
Male gender (%)	67 (43.8%)	21 (70.0%)	46 (37.4%)	0.002
Premature birth (%)	23 (15.0%)	7 (23.3%)	16 (13.0%)	0.163
Syndromic BA (%)	7 (4.6%)	4 (13.3%)	3 (2.4%)	0.028