Table 2.
Perioperative Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients under Study
| Parameter | Category | Overall, N = 425 | Use of TXA | Missing | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No, N = 244 | Yes, N = 181 | P | ||||
| Plastic surgery | First | 177 (55.5%) | 104 (61.2%) | 73 (49.0%) | 0.077 | 106 (25%) |
| Second | 126 (39.5%) | 60 (35.3%) | 66 (44.3%) | |||
| Third | 15 (4.7%) | 6 (3.5%) | 9 (6.0%) | |||
| More | 1 (0.3%) | 0 (0.0%) | 1 (0.7%) | |||
| Surgery category | Breast aesthetic surgery | 124 (29.2%) | 99 (40.6%) | 25 (13.8%) | <0.001 | 0 (0%) |
| Facial aesthetic surgery | 78 (18.4%) | 52 (21.3%) | 26 (14.4%) | |||
| Trunk aesthetic surgery | 141 (33.2%) | 51 (20.9%) | 90 (49.7%) | |||
| Liposuction | 40 (9.4%) | 18 (7.4%) | 22 (12.2%) | |||
| Extremities aesthetic surgery | 42 (9.9%) | 24 (9.8%) | 18 (9.9%) | |||
| Single or combined | Single | 207 (48.7%) | 145 (59.4%) | 62 (34.3%) | <0.001 | 0 (0%) |
| Combined | 218 (51.3%) | 99 (40.6%) | 119 (65.7%) | |||
| Preoperative Hb | Mean ± SD | 13.3 ± 1.1 | 13.3 ± 1.2 | 13.3 ± 1.0 | 0.661 | 44 (10%) |
| Postoperative Hb | Mean ± SD | 10.8 ± 1.7 | 10.7 ± 1.7 | 10.9 ± 1.6 | 0.697 | 371 (87%) |
| Operative time (min) | Mean ± SD | 194.9 ± 71.3 | 214.0 ± 62.8 | 180.6 ± 73.9 | <0.001 | 4 (0.9%) |
| LOS (d) | Mean ± SD | 1.5 ± 1.0 | 1.8 ± 1.1 | 1.3 ± 0.9 | <0.001 | 83 (20%) |
| Blood transfusion | Yes | 11 (2.6%) | 7 (2.9%) | 4 (2.2%) | 0.766 | 2 (0.5%) |
| B-Units (units) | 1 | 1 (9.1%) | 0 (0.0%) | 1 (25.0%) | 0.475 | 0 (0%) |
| 2 | 7 (63.6%) | 5 (71.4%) | 2 (50.0%) | |||
| 3 | 1 (9.1%) | 1 (14.3%) | 0 (0.0%) | |||
| 4 | 1 (9.1%) | 1 (14.3%) | 0 (0.0%) | |||
| 6 | 1 (9.1%) | 0 (0.0%) | 1 (25.0%) | |||
| Return to operating room | Yes | 2 (0.5%) | 1 (0.4%) | 1 (0.6%) | >0.999 | 0 (0%) |
| Complications | Yes | 1 (0.2%) | 1 (0.4%) | 0 (0.0%) | >0.999 | 4 (0.9%) |
*An asterisk indicates that descriptive statistics are based on 11 patients who required blood transfusion.
Values in boldface denote statistically significant differences (P < 0.05).