Table 1.

characteristics of patients

	Mechanical colonic preparation
	No, N = 351	Yes, N = 181	p-value2
Age	51 (19)	50 (16)	0.8
Gender			>0.9
Female	2 (5.7%)	1 (5.6%)
Male	33 (94%)	17 (94%)
Retractile mesosigmoiditis	62 (15)	60 (13)	0.8
Downstream diametre	5.56 (1.01)	7.83 (0.76)	0.016
Upstream diametre	4 (0)	4 (1)	0.12
Staplers for terminalisation			0.3
1 Stapler	26 (74%)	11 (61%)
2 Staplers	9 (26%)	7 (39%)
Duration of intervention	37 (7)	51 (18)	0.001
Hospital stay	5 (5)	5 (1)	0.6
Morbidity			0.5
No	33 (94%)	18 (100%)
Yes	2 (5.7%)	0 (0%)
Mortality
No	34 (100%)	18 (100%)
Gas transit	2 days (1)	1 day (1)	0.3

1 Mean (ET); n (%) 2 Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test; Fisher exact test; khi-2 test