Table 5. Postoperative bile leak.

*: Fisher’s exact test used to calculate statistical significance.

BMI: body mass index

Variable	Bile leak (N = 7)	No bile leak (N = 43)	P-value*
Median age in years (range)	60 (50–87)	70 (27–84)	0.21
Median BMI (kg/m2)	33	29	0.27
Median length of stay in days (range)	13 (5–25)	8 (1–44)	0.03
90-day re-presentation rate (%)	3/7 (42.8%)	3/43 (7%)	0.007
Gallbladder remnant left open	4/12 (33.3%)	8/12 (66.7%)	0.04
Gallbladder remnant closed	3/38 (7.9%)	35/38 (92.1%)