Table 1.
Characteristics of patients undergoing colorectal resection, according to whether they abstained from alcohol in month before operation. Figures are medians (range) unless states otherwise
| Detail | Intervention group (no alcohol; n=16) |
Control group (n=19) |
|---|---|---|
| No of men | 16 | 16 |
| Age (years) | 58 (37-75) | 61 (50-76) |
| Body mass index (kg/m2) | 24 (18-30) | 28 (19-32) |
| No of non-smokers | 7 | 8 |
| Smokers (g/day) | 20 (5-40) | 20 (2-30) |
| Prognostic nutrition index (%)* | 51 (14-63) | 30 (12-52) |
| Cardiac risk index (points) | 3 (3-15) | 3 (3-10) |
| ASA score | II (II-III) | II (II-III) |
| No treated for chronic diseases: | 5 | 6† |
| Heart failure | 2 | 1 |
| Angina pectoris | 0 | 0 |
| Hypertension | 1 | 4 |
| Chronic bronchitis | 1 | 2 |
| Asthma | 1 | 0 |
| IDDM/NIDDM‡ | 0 | 0 |
| Operative procedure: | ||
| Resection of transverse colon | 1 | 1 |
| Hemicolectomy | 2 | 3 |
| Sigmoid resection | 3 | 4 |
| Low anterior resection | 4 | 5 |
| Rectal amputation | 1 | 1 |
| Closure of stoma after Hartmann’s resection | 5 | 5 |
| Diagnosis benign/malignant: | 8/8 | 9/10 |
| Dukes’s type A | 1 | 0 |
| Dukes’s type B | 2 | 8 |
| Dukes’s type C | 5 | 2 |
| Duration of surgery (min) | 185 (110-335) | 180 (100-315) |
| No who did not have transfusion | 12 | 15 |
| Intraoperative transfusion (ml) | 900 (600-2100) | 1350 (600-3100) |
| Intraoperative infusion (ml) | 2500 (2100-7000) | 3000 (1400-4500) |
*
Values above 50% are associated with increased postoperative morbidity.6
†
One patient suffered from heart failure and hypertension.
‡
IDDM=insulin dependent diabetes mellitus; NIDDM=non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus.