TABLE 4.
Median time to first relapse and type of relapse according to each gallstone disease at index admission.
| Relapses | Type of relapse | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Index admission cause | N (%) | Median time to first relapse (months) a | AP | ACC | ACL | SC | BC | Comb |
| Acute pancreatitis | 346 (33.9) | 2.27 [0.79–5.09] | 197 (56.9) | 25 (7.2) | 13 (3.8) | 19 (5.5) | 69 (19.9) | 23 (6.6) |
| Acute cholecystitis | 284 (27.8) | 2.23 [0.69–5.77] | 17 (6.0) | 110 (38.7) | 28 (9.9) | 15 (5.3) | 97 (34.2) | 17 (6.0) |
| Acute cholangitis | 107 (10.5) | 2.92 [0.66–7.85] | 6 (5.6) | 27 (25.2) | 31 (29.0) | 11 (10.3) | 27 (25.2) | 5 (4.7) |
| Symptomatic choledocholithiasis | 85 (8.3) | 1.15 [0.46–4.20] | 10 (11.8) | 16 (18.8) | 11 (12.9) | 23 (27.1) | 24 (28.2) | 1 (1.2) |
| Biliary colic | 118 (11.6) | 2.62 [0.57–5.26] | 18 (15.3) | 21 (17.8) | 4 (3.4) | 5 (4.2) | 68 (57.6) | 2 (1.6) |
| Any combination | 81 (7.9) | 2.10 [0.66–6.59] | 16 (19.8) | 19 (23.5) | 11 (13.6) | 3 (3.7) | 20 (24.7) | 12 (14.7) |
| All | 1021 | 2.17 [0.68–5.49] | 264 (25.9) | 218 (21.4) | 98 (9.6) | 76 (7.4) | 305 (29.9) | 60 (5.8) |
Note: Data presented as: n (%); median [25th percentile–75th percentile].
Abbreviations: AP, Acute pancreatitis; ACC, Acute cholecystitis; ACL, Acute cholangitis; SC, Symptomatic choledocholithiasis; Comb, any combination of different symptomatic gallstone diseases.
a
p‐value<0.001.