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Table 3 Treatment and outcome of patients with cholelithiasis

From: Effect of statin use on outcome of symptomatic cholelithiasis: a case-control study

 

Statin use (n = 272)

No statin (n = 272)

p-value

Overall mortality

12 (4%)

19 (7%)

0.195

ICU treatment (N patients)

6 (2%)

3 (1%)

0.348

Mean hospital stay, days

4.3 ± 9.9

3.9 ± 4.7

0.7301

Treatment type

   

Conservative/Surgical

73/199 (27/73%)

68/204 (25/75%)

0.625

Elective/emergency operation

138/61 (69/31%)

136/68 (67/33%)

0.769

  Laparoscopic

131 (65%)

130 (64%)

0.659

  Open surgery

47 (24%)

46 (23%)

0.799

  Conversion

13 (7%)

17 (8%)

0.491

  Cholecystostoma

8 (4%)

11 (5%)

0.516

Reoperations

6 (3.0%)

3 (1.5%)

0.211

Choledochotomy

13 (7%)

20 (10%)

0.197

Choledocholithiasis

9 (5%)

20 (10%)

0.104

Complications (operated)

27 (13.6%)

32 (15.7%)

0.733

  Urological

5 (2.5%)

7 (3.4%)

 

  Peritonitis

3 (1.5%)

3 (1.5%)

 

  Bleeding

4 (2.0%)

3 (1.5%)

 

  Bile leak

3 (1.5%)

1 (0.5%)

 

  Other abscess

1 (0.5%)

1 (0.5%)

 

  Heart complication

1 (0.5%)

1 (0.5%)

 

  Lung complication

1 (0.5%)

0

 

  Other

9 (4.5%)

16 (7.8%)

 

ERCP (all)

31 (11%)

34 (13%)

0.595

  1. Values are shown as number (percentage) or mean (SD) unless otherwise indicated.
  2. 1Indicates the Mann-Whitney U-test.