Table 3.
Ninety-Day Medical Complication Rates and Statistical Analysis.
| Medical Complications | History of Breast Cancer |
No History of Breast Cancer |
Odds Ratio |
95% Confidence Interval |
P Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary embolism | 0.59% | 0.45% | 1.323 | 1.09–1.59 | .003 |
| Acute post-operative anemia |
3.59% | 3.54% | 1.015 | 0.945–1.09 | .16 |
| Acute myocardial infarction |
0.16% | 0.19% | 0.845 | 0.61–1.15 | .296 |
| Deep venous thrombosis | 1.23% | 1.24% | 0.987 | 0.876–1.113 | .831 |
| Pneumonia | 0.74% | 0.80% | 0.917 | 0.788–1.067 | .263 |
| Pulmonary insufficiency | 0.04% | 0.03% | 1.2 | 0.60–2.381 | .601 |
| Post-operative bleeding | 0.67% | 0.70% | 0.951 | 0.810–1.117 | .539 |
| Cardiac complication | 0.06% | 0.09% | 0.737 | 0.452–1.200 | .218 |
| Peripheral vascular complication |
0.06% | 0.07% | 0.781 | 0.463–1.318 | .354 |
| Urinary complication | 0.04% | 0.04% | 1.118 | 0.581–2.151 | .739 |
| Intubation | 0.20% | 0.19% | 1.024 | 0.759–1.381 | .879 |
| Transfusion of blood | 2.00% | 2.02% | 0.986 | 0.897–1.084 | .773 |
| Peripheral vascular ultrasound |
0.21% | 0.16% | 1.32 | 0.965–1.805 | .082 |
| Chest computed tomography |
1.72% | 1.18% | 1.46 | 1.305–1.634 | <.001 |