Table 5.

Operative details and surgical morbidity and mortality

Centres	Minneapolis	Leicester	Cincinnati	Alabama
Published series (where data was extracted from)	Sutherland et al. 200841Manciu et al. 199951aWahoff et al. 199510b	Garcea et al. 20099Clayton et al. 200352c	Ahmad et al. 200512Rodriguez Rilo et al. 200315d	Argo et al. 20083
Operative duration	Mean 9 +/− 1.5 ha	Median 8 h (4–11 h)	Mean 533 min (325–725 min)	Mean 6.9 +/− 0.18 h
Blood loss	Median 2000 ml (350–12000 ml)a	Median 400 ml (0–2000 ml)c	Mean 563 ml (190–1900 ml)	Mean 632.6 +/− 100.5 ml
Length of hospital stay	Median 25 days (9–82 days)a	Median 20 days (8–144 days)	Mean 15.2 days (5–40 days)d	Mean 10.1 +/− 0.78 days
Complications	Overall complication reported: 25%b	Overall major complication: 15%	Major: 18%d; minor: 64%d	Overall complication reported: 56%
Operative mortality	2%b	2%	6.7%	0%

^aSample size = 41;

^bSample size = 48;

^cSample size = 40;

^dSample size = 22