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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2017 Aug 10;16(4):550–557. doi: 10.1016/j.cgh.2017.08.008

Table 1.

Patient and procedural characteristics

Phase I (n=331) Phase II (n=252) P values Phase I vs. II, TOTAL P values Phase I vs II, LVE P values Phase I vs II, HVE
Total LVE (n=78) HVE (n=253) Total LVE (n=36) HVE (n=216)
Age (mean ± SD) 60.1±17.1 62.8±19.7 59.2±16.2 60.0±17.1 64.5±14.5 59.2±17.4 0.9546 0.6460 0.9912
Gender 0.4437 0.0439 0.8553
Male 172 34 138 139 23 116
Female 159 44 115 113 13 100
Indication 0.0038 0.0119 0.0046
Abnormal LFTs 25 12 13 14 11 3
Stone 103 36 67 71 10 61
Stricture 158 23 135 103 6 97
Others 45 7 38 64 9 55
Complexity Score (mean ± SD) 2.28 ± 0.74 1.99 ± 0.61 2.37 ± 0.76 2.22 ± 0.84 1.53 ± 0.56 2.33 ± 0.82 0.371 0.0002 0.6384