Table 3.

Complications of hysterectomy among women with von Willebrand disease (VWD) compared to women without VWD.

Outcome	ICD-9 codes	Number in women with VWD (% of women with VWD)	Number in women without VWD (% of women without VWD)	P-value*
Intraoperative and postoperative bleeding	998.11, 998.12	15 (2.75)	11 678 (0.86)	<0.001
Transfusion	99.00, 99.01, 99.02, 99.03, 99.04, 99.05, 99.06, 99.07, 99.08, 99.09	40 (7.34)	28 957 (2.13)	<0.001
Infection	038.0, 038.1, 038.3, 038.4, 038.8, 038.9, 686.9, 790.7, 966.6, 998.5, 998.51, 998.59,	4 (0.73%)	5203 (0.38)	0.159
Other wound complications	998.3, 998.83	2 (0.37)	1997 (0.15)	0.192
Thromboembolic complications
Deep vein thrombosis	453.4, 453.41, 453.42, 453.9	0	150 (0.01)	1.000
Pulmonary embolism	415.1, 415.11, 415.19	0	1343 (0.10)	1.000
Myocardial infarction	410, 410.1, 410.2, 410.3, 410.4, 410.5, 410.6, 410.7, 410.9	0	117 (0.01)	1.000
Stroke	433, 434, 434,91, 435, 435,9, 436, 437, 997.02	0	413 (0.03)	1.000
Death		1 (0.18)	1798 (0.13)	0.515

^*Chi square or Fisher’s exact test.