Table 5.
Postoperative Complications Comparison of Individual Nail Lengths
| Postoperative Complications | Short (n = 48) | Intermediate (n = 39) | Long (n = 160) | P Value |
| Postoperative anemia | 7 (14.6%) | 1 (2.6%) | 27 (16.9%) | 0.0491 |
| Postoperative AKIa | 8 (17.8%) | 2 (5.7%) | 21 (14.3%) | 0.2719 |
| Postoperative pneumonia | 0 (0.0%) | 1 (2.6%) | 10 (6.3%) | 0.1769 |
| Pulmonary embolism | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 4 (2.5%) | 0.7875 |
| Cardiac complication | 2 (4.2%) | 2 (5.1%) | 3 (1.9%) | 0.3142 |
| Stroke | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 1 (0.6%) | 1.0000 |
| Sepsis | 0 (0.0%) | 2 (5.1%) | 4 (2.5%) | 0.2424 |
| Blood transfusion | 16 (33.3%) | 10 (25.6%) | 78 (48.8%) | 0.0126 |
| Estimated blood loss (mL)b | 150.38 (90.08) | 148.75 (114.26) | 153.62 (90.74) | 0.9564 |
AKI = acute kidney injury
a
Data from 20 patients were missing for postoperative AKI. bContinuous variables are formatted as follows: mean (SD). Bold entries are statistically significant at p≤0.05.