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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Transplantation. 2016 Feb;100(2):407–415. doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000000838

Table 5B.

Readmissions within 1st year

LRT-alone LRT+SBN P-value
Total readmissions (n) 44 53 0.88
 % of overall readmissions 53 55
Patients readmitted (n) 25 40 0.19
 % of overall patients 48 68
Readmitted more than once (n) 10 12 1.0
 % of overall patients 19 18
 % of 1st year readmissions 40 30
Surgery-related readmissions requiring additional procedure (n) 13 13 0.51
 % of overall patients 25 20
 % of total 1st year readmissions 29 24.5
Small bowel obstruction (n) 0 3 0.07
 % of all 1st year readmissions 0 5.6
Wound infections (n) 1 5 0.23
 % of all 1st year readmissions 4.5 9.4
Other medical readmissions (n) 31 38 0.88
 % of all 1st year readmissions 70 (Osteomyelitis, hyponatremia, edema, drug toxicity, cellulitis, esophagitis, shortness of breath, BK nephropathy, elevated creatinine, pulmonary hypertension, gastroenteritis, abdominal pain, anasarca) 71 (Drug toxicity, BK nephropathy, elevated creatinine, diabetes mellitus, hyperkalemia, neutropenia, leucopenia, acute pancreatitis, dizziness, atrial fibrillation, urinary incontinence, upper respiratory infection)