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Table 1 Patient’s baseline demographics and summary of preoperative data

From: The role of the laparoscopic approach in the surgical management of acute adhesive small bowel obstruction

 

Total

N = 262

Laparoscopy

n = 78

Open

n = 184

p

Age

66.06 ± 18.7

59.36 ± 18.7

68.9 ± 18

< 0.001

Female gender

137 (52.3)

41 (52.6)

96 (52.2)

0.954

Previous abdominal operation

225 (85.9)

62 (79.5)

163 (88.6)

0.053

N°. of previous abdominal operations

1.87 ± 1.6

1.4 ± 1.2

2.07 ± 1.7

0.001

Previous wall mesh placement

69 (26.5)

15 (19.5)

54 (29.5)

0.095

ASA

   

< 0.001

 I

22 (8.7)

13 (17.1)

9 (5.1)

 

 II

97 (38.2)

41 (53.9)

56 (31.5)

 

 III

112 (44.1)

20 (26.3)

92 (51.7)

 

 IV

23 (9.1)

2 (2.6)

21 (11.8)

 
  1. Values are n (%) unless otherwise specified as mean (± SD)