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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dig Dis Sci. 2016 Apr 28;61(9):2602–2607. doi: 10.1007/s10620-016-4171-9

Table 4.

Summary of complications

Complication Number of patients Timing after surgery
Septic Wound Infection 1* developed within 6–7
days
Intra-abdominal /pelvic
abscess
1 developed 12–14 days
Intra-abdominal leak 0
Extra-abdominal infection 1$ diagnosed after 7 days
Non-septic Small bowel obstruction 0
Prolonged ileus 5* resolved within 5–10
days
GI bleeding 0
VTE 0 developed after 2 days
Readmission within 7 days 0
Reoperation Rates within 30
days
1& 1 day
Other Cardiac 0
Acute renal failure 0
Neurologic 0

VTE= venothromboembolism;

*

One patient had both prolonged ileus and a wound infection;

$

Clostridium difficile colitis;

&

Ex lap the day after the procedure for pneumoperitoneum and suspected ischemia