Research Article
Early or Delayed Intervention for Bile Duct Injuries following Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy? A Dilemma Looking for an Answer
Table 5
Results of biliary reconstruction by HBS.
| | | Early (<2 weeks)
repair or reconstruction (34) | Late (>12 weeks)
repair or reconstruction (22) | Significance | Total (56) |
| | Immediate postoperative complications | | | | | | Wound infection, number (%) | 5 (14.7) | 6 (27.3) | 0.310 | 11 (19.6) | | Bile leak, number (%) | 4 (11.8) | 3 (13.6) | 0.999 | 7 (12.5) | | Biloma, number (%) | 3 (8.8) | 2 (9.1) | 0.999 | 5 (8.9) | | Biliary peritonitis, number (%) | 0 (0) | 1 (4.5) | 0.393 | 1 (1.8) | | Overall immediate morbidity, number (%) | 7 (20.6) | 6 (27.3) | 0.563 | 13 (23.2) | | Long-term postoperative complications | | | | | | Stricture, number (%) | 6 (17.6) | 5 (22.72) |
0.736 | 11 (19.6) | | Recurrent cholangitis, number (%) | 4 (11.8) | 3 (13.6) | 0.999 | 7 (12.5) | | Intervention/dilation, number (%) | 6 (17.6) | 5 (22.72) | 0.736 | 11 (19.6) | | Redo reconstruction, number (%) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | * | 0 (0) | | Overall long-term morbidity, number (%) | 8 (23.5) | 7 (31.8) | 0.494 | 15 (26.8) | | Mortality, number (%) | 1 (2.9) | 1 (4.5) | 0.999 | 2 (3.6) |
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No statistics are computed because the absence of need of redo reconstruction is a constant.
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