Table 3 Comparison of patients’ characteristics between the postoperative infectious complication and non-complication groups.

From: The usefulness of presepsin in the diagnosis of postoperative infectious complications after gastrectomy for gastric cancer: a prospective cohort study

 

Non-Complication

(n = 90)

Complication

(n = 18)

p value

Age, years

70.9 ± 11.2

74.7 ± 6.6

0.22

Sex, male/female

69/21

14/4

0.4

ASA score

1/2/3

23/57/10

2/14/2

0.4

Surgical procedure

DG/PG/TG/RTG

63/11/9/7

11/3/4/0

0.3

Reconstruction procedure

BI/BII/EG/RY/DT

33/4/10/42/1

9/1/3/5/0

0.19

Surgical approach

Open/laparoscopic/robotic

14/63/13

3/12/3

0.95

Lymph node dissection

D1/D1 + /D2/D2 + 

10/50/23/7

1/10/6/1

0.82

Intraoperative bleeding (mL)

50.1 ± 113

75 ± 109

0.03

Operative time (min)

276 ± 85.7

284 ± 87.8

0.45

pStage

I/II/III/IV

52/16/18/4

9/3/6/0

0.53

  1. ASA, American Society of Anesthesiologists; DG, distal gastrectomy; PG, proximal gastrectomy; TG, total gastrectomy; RTG, remnant total gastrectomy; BI, Billroth I; BII, Billroth II; EG, esophagogastrostomy; RY, Roux-en-Y; DT, double tract.
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