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Table 4 Details of 30-day postoperative complications

From: Frailty index is useful for predicting postoperative morbidity in older patients undergoing gastrointestinal surgery: a prospective cohort study

 

No. of patients (n = 246)

Non-frail (n = 199)

Frail (n = 47)

Postoperative pneumonia (n, %)

29 (11.7)

14 (7.0)

15 (31.9)

SSI (n, %)

13 (5.3)

8 (4.0)

5 (10.6)

POI (n, %)

9 (3.7)

4 (2.0)

5 (10.6)

Anastomotic leakage (n, %)

6 (2.4)

3 (1.5)

3 (6.4)

PRI (n, %)

5 (2.0)

3 (1.5)

2 (4.3)

Postoperative bleeding (n, %)

5 (2.0)

2 (1.0)

3 (6.4)

Urinary retention (n, %)

3 (1.2)

2 (1.0)

1 (2.1)

DVT (n, %)

2 (0.8)

1 (0.5)

1 (2.1)

Cardiac-cerebral vascular events (n, %)

2 (0.8)

0 (0)

2 (4.3)

Other (n, %)

7 (2.8)

5 (2.5)

2 (4.3)

Total (n, %)*

59 (23.9)

32 (16.1)

27 (57.4)

  1. SSI surgical site infection, POI postoperative ileus, PRI progressive renal insufficiency; DVT deep venous thrombosis
  2. *A total of 81 complications occurred in 59 patients