Table 2.
Complication Rates in Females Undergoing Breast and/or Abdominal Procedures
| Combined Procedures | Breast |
Abdomen |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (n = 3693) | (n = 44,623) | P-value | (n = 10,440) | P-value | |
| Mortality | 0.00% | 0.01% | 1.000 | 0.07% | .201 |
| Any Complication | 9.91% | 3.01% | < .001 | 10.14% | .686 |
| Medical Complication | |||||
| Cardiac Arrest requiring CPR | 0.00% | 0.01% | 1.000 | 0.00% | 1.000 |
| Myocardial Infarction | 0.00% | 0.00% | 1.000 | 0.00% | – |
| Coma > 24 hours | 0.00% | 0.00% | – | 0.01% | 1.000 |
| Peripheral Nerve Injury | 0.00% | 0.00% | – | 0.00% | |
| Stroke | 0.00% | 0.00% | – | 0.01% | 1.000 |
| On ventilator > 48 hrs | 0.00% | 0.00% | – | 0.01% | 1.000 |
| Pneumonia | 0.00% | 0.01% | 1.000 | 0.07% | .201 |
| Unplanned intubation | 0.00% | 0.00% | – | 0.03% | .572 |
| Sepsis | 0.00% | 0.00% | – | 0.00% | – |
| Septic Shock | 0.00% | 0.00% | – | 0.00% | – |
| Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS) | 0.00% | 0.01% | 1.000 | 0.00% | – |
| Acute Renal Insufficiency | 0.00% | 0.00% | – | 0.01% | 1.000 |
| Progressive Renal Insufficiency | 0.00% | 0.00% | – | 0.00% | – |
| Urinary Tract Infection | 0.03% | 0.01% | .214 | 0.02% | 1.000 |
| Deep Vein Thrombosis | 0.22% | 0.01% | < .001 | 0.16% | .504 |
| Pulmonary Embolism | 0.08% | 0.01% | .019 | 0.30% | .019 |
| Surgical Complications | |||||
| Seroma | 2.84% | 0.26% | < .001 | 3.59% | .031 |
| Hematoma | 1.22% | 0.86% | .028 | 0.72% | .003 |
| Wound Disruption Superficial | 2.55% | 0.68% | < .001 | 2.32% | .436 |
| Wound Disruption Deep/Fascia | 0.32% | 0.11% | < .001 | 0.47% | .250 |
| Superficial Incisional Surgical Site Infection | 0.73% | 0.22% | < .001 | 0.79% | .746 |
| Deep Incisional Surgical Site Infection | 0.41% | 0.14% | < .001 | 0.55% | .305 |
| Organ/Space Surgical Site Infection | 0.03% | 0.01% | .429 | 0.02% | 1.000 |
| Infection Requiring Intravenous Antibiotics | 0.38% | 0.15% | .001 | 0.42% | .729 |
| Infection Requiring Oral Antibiotics | 2.41% | 0.70% | < .001 | 2.63% | .460 |
| Total Flap Loss (>90%) | 0.00% | 0.01% | 1.000 | 0.01% | 1.000 |
| Partial Flap Loss (10% - 90%) | 0.08% | 0.07% | .749 | 0.18% | .229 |
| Implant/Prosthesis Loss | 0.08% | 0.21% | .122 | – | – |
| Transfusion, > 4 U RBC | 0.00% | 0.00% | – | 0.01% | 1.000 |
| Return to Emergency Room | 0.41% | 0.14% | < .001 | 0.57% | .226 |
| Readmission | 0.79% | 0.19% | < .001 | 0.88% | .586 |
| Return to Operating Room | 1.33% | 0.87% | .006 | 1.01% | .106 |