Table 3. Postoperative data of patients undergoing esophagectomy.

Viariablea	All patients N = 166	Group I N = 149	Group II N = 17	Pvalue
Blood transfusion (ml)	231.52 ± 362.80	230.41 ± 373.88	241.18 ± 254.48	0.91
Erythrocyte transfusion (U)	0.49 ± 1.13	0.44 ± 1.03	0.94 ± 1.75	0.26
ICU (days)	0.31 ± 1.67	0.27 ± 1.61	0.71 ± 2.17	0.31
Duration of respirator use (days)	0.13 ± 0.68	0.07 ± 0.26	0.65 ± 1.94	0.24
Oxygen inhalation (days)	9.17 ± 8.32	9.19 ± 8.64	9.06 ± 4.87	0.95
Analgesic (days)	5.36 ± 2.39	5.39 ± 2.44	5.12 ± 1.93	0.66
Length of stay (days)	27.28 ± 18.10	26.38 ± 16.75	35.18 ± 26.64	0.20
Antibiotics (days)	5.11 ± 5.01	4.83 ± 4.84	7.53 ± 5.94	0.04

^adata are shown as mean ± standard deviation or n(%) as appropriate.