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Table 1 Patients characteristics and short-term outcomes

From: Comparison of pancreatojejunostomy techniques in patients with a soft pancreas: Kakita anastomosis and Blumgart anastomosis

Variables

Total (n = 286)

Kakita (n = 176)

Blumgart (n = 110)

p

Patients characteristics

    

 Age (years)

67 (21–87)

66 (32–87)

69 (21–86)

0.143

 Male

166 (58.0)

100 (56.8)

66 (60.0)

0.594

 BMI

22.3 (15.9–32.0)

22.3 (15.9–32.0)

22.2 (16.1–31.6)

0.560

 History of DM

47 (16.4)

27 (15.3)

20 (18.2)

0.530

 Diameter of MPD (mm)

3 (1–16)

2 (1–8)

3 (1–16)

0.0001 *

 Thickness of the pancreas (mm)

10 (5–18)

10 (5–18)

10 (6–18)

0.203

Shor-term outcomes

    

 Operative time (min)

481 (254–920)

487 (295–834)

477 (254–920)

0.782

 Blood loss (mL)

450 (20–3530)

400 (20–3530)

490 (60–1875)

0.551

 Pancreatic fistula (> Grade B)

122 (42.7)

75 (42.6)

47 (42.7)

0.985

  Grade B

110 (38.5)

69

41

0.744

   Length of drain placement > 22

59 (20.6)

39

20

0.416

   Infection

51 (17.8)

30

21

0.661

  Grade C

12 (4.2)

6 (3.4)

6 (5.5)

0.407

   Re-operation

6 (2.1)

4

2

0.792

    Intraabdominal bleeding (IAB)

4 (1.4)

2

2

0.637

    Leakage of pancreatojejunostomy

2 (0.7)

2

0

0.163

   Arterial embolization for IAB

6 (2.1)

2

4

0.158

  Latent pancreatic fistula (> Grade B)

17 (5.9)

14 (8.0)

3 (2.7)

0.055

Morbidity (> Clavien-Dindo Grade IIIa)

70 (24.5)

45 (25.6)

25 (22.7)

0.586

Postoperative hospital stay

30 (16–127)

30 (16–108)

31 (16–127)

0.290

Length of drain placement

18.5 (4–127)

18 (4–85)

19 (4–127)

0.204

Mortality

2 (0.7)

1 (0.5)

1 (0.9)

0.740

  1. All the data are shown as median (range) or the number (percentage)
  2. *Indicates statistically significant