Table 3 Subgroup analysis regarding stoma types.

From: Fecal diversion does not support healing of anus-near pressure ulcers in patients with spinal cord injury—results of a retrospective cohort study

  

Number (%) or Median (IQR)

 
 

n

End colostomy n = 26

Loop ileostomy n = 17

p value††

Admission to surgery time [days]

17/7

50 (23; 90)

90 (42; 90)

0.52

Previously surgical ulcer procedures

26/17

14 (53.8)

11 (64.7)

0.54

Primary microbial infection

26/17

26 (100)

15 (88.2)

0.15

Microbial superinfection

25/17

5 (20)

2 (11.8)

0.78

Time to complete wound healing [days]

22/17

72.5 (50; 110)

92 (49; 179)

0.36

Length of hospital stay [days]

26/17

75 (50; 116)

98 (49; 179)

0.42

Length of ICU stay [days]

26/17

2 (2; 13)

4 (2; 2)

0.52

Adverse events during ulcer treatment

26/17

15 (57.7)

8 (47.1)

0.71

Adverse events during stoma surgery

23/14

3 (13)

4 (28.6)

0.39

Adverse events in total

26/17

19 (73.1)

11 (64.7)

0.81

Clostridioides difficile infection

26/17

1 (3.9)

0 (0)

1.00

Recurrence [within 3 months]

26/17

1 (3.9)

1 (5.9)

1.00

New ulcer in the same region [within 3 months]

26/17

3 (11.5)

2 (11.8)

1.00

  1. as appropriate.
  2. ††Easy Fisher Exact Test, Chi2-test with Yates correction or Mann–Whitney U test, as appropriate.