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. 2022 Aug 7;28(29):3934–3945. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v28.i29.3934

Table 2.

Characteristics data for patients with drainage

Characteristics, n (%)
Total (n = 915)
Grade I (n = 302)
Grade II (n = 306)
Grade III (n = 307)
P value
Drainage method, n (%) 0.001
ERCP 830 (90.7) 289 (95.7) 269 (87.9) 272 (88.6)
PTBD 85 (9.3) 13 (4.3) 37 (12.1) 35 (11.4)
Timing of drainage (hours)- median (IQR), n (%) 24.0 (60.0) 26.4 (62.4) 26.4 (62.4) 21.6 (45.6) 0.001
Biliary drainage within, n (%) 0.001
12 h 212 (23.2) 54 (17.9) 69 (22.5) 89 (29.0)
12-24 h 233 (25.5) 74 (24.5) 70 (22.9) 89 (29.0)
24-48 h 172 (18.8) 71 (23.5) 54 (17.6) 47 (15.3)
> 48 h 298 (32.6) 103 (34.1) 113 (36.9) 82 (26.7)
Second intervention, n (%) 478 (52.2) 159 (52.6) 154 (50.3) 165 (53.7) 0.688
Drainage outside working hours, n (%) 207 (22.6) 49 (16.2) 60 (19.6) 98 (31.9) < 0.001
Adverse events, n (%)
Pancreatitis 75 (8.2) 23 (7.6) 23 (7.5) 29 (9.4) 0.643
Cholangitis 8 (0.9) 2 (0.7) 2 (0.7) 4 (1.3) 0.742
Perforation 7 (0.8) 1 (0.3) 2 (0.7) 0 (0) 0.440
Bile leak 4 (0.4) 2 (0.7) 1 (0.3) 1 (0.3) 0.701
Myocardial infarction 5 (0.5) 0 (0) 3 (1.0) 2 (0.7) 0.339

IQR: Interquartile range; ERCP: Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography; PTBD: Percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage.