Table 4.
Complications and Adverse Events
| Complications and Adverse Events | Laparotomy |
Laparoscopy |
P | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of Patients | % | No. of Patients | % | ||
| Intraoperative complications | |||||
| Any | 69 | 8 | 160 | 10 | .106 |
| Bowel | 16 | 2 | 37 | 2 | |
| Vein | 23 | 3 | 45 | 3 | |
| Artery | 6 | 1 | 30 | 2 | |
| Bladder | 7 | 1 | 21 | 1 | |
| Ureter | 6 | 1 | 14 | 1 | |
| Other | 13 | 1 | 26 | 2 | |
| Postoperative adverse events (grade ≥ 2) | |||||
| Any | 191 | 21 | 240 | 14 | < .001 |
| Urinary tract infection | 27 | 3 | 35 | 2 | |
| Fever | 33 | 4 | 55 | 3 | |
| Pelvic cellulitis | 8 | 1 | 14 | 1 | |
| Abscess | 6 | 1 | 17 | 1 | |
| Venous thrombophlebitis | 12 | 1 | 14 | 1 | |
| Pulmonary embolus | 12 | 1 | 20 | 1 | |
| Bowel obstruction | 12 | 1 | 14 | 1 | |
| Ileus* | 68 | 8 | 66 | 4 | |
| Pneumonia | 19 | 2 | 15 | 1 | |
| Wound infection | 33 | 4 | 53 | 3 | |
| Urinary fistula | 1 | < 1 | 6 | < 1 | |
| Bowel fistula | 2 | < 1 | 6 | < 1 | |
| Congestive heart failure | 11 | 1 | 12 | 1 | |
| Arrhythmia* | 22 | 2 | 15 | 1 | |
| Perioperative and postoperative period | |||||
| Blood transfusion | 66 | 7 | 143 | 9 | .280 |
| Antibiotics | 211 | 23 | 274 | 16 | < .001 |
| Readmission | 59 | 7 | 96 | 6 | .413 |
| Reoperation | 22 | 2 | 48 | 3 | .523 |
| Treatment-related deaths | 8 | 1 | 10 | < 1 | .404 |
| Hospital stay > 2 days | 845 | 94 | 867 | 52 | < .001 |
*
Significantly different at adjusted significance level of P = .005.