Clinical Study

Evaluation of Early Cholecystectomy versus Delayed Cholecystectomy in the Treatment of Acute Cholecystitis

Table 2

Overall and surgical morbidity after surgery; mortality.

Overall morb.Surgical morb.Mortality

EC (158) (93)0.8% (6)
 <72 h29.6% (140)16.9% (80)0.4% (2)
 >72 h33.3% (18)24.1% (13)0%
 No surgery100% (4)
DC (157) (123)2.7% (14)
 Elective22.4% (60)18.3% (49)0.4% (1)
 Urgent69.2% (97)51.7% (74)2.8% (4)
 No surgery8.9% (9)

Highlighted in bold font are statistically significant values.