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. 2022 Jan 27;38(4):265–271. doi: 10.1159/000519789

Table 1.

Patient characteristics

Pre-lockdown era COVID-19-lockdown era p value
Patient characteristics N = 252 N = 101
Gender (f), n (%) 147 (58) 49 (49) 0.093
Median age, years (range) 72 (24–96) 68 (29–90) 0.835
BMI, kg/m2 (±SD) 26 (±5.0) 27 (±5.6) 0.870
Elective cases, n (%) 147 (62) 39 (39) <0.001
Indication for CCE, n (%)
 Acute cholecystitis 87 (35) 53 (52)
 CDL/pancreatitis 49 (19) 17 (17) 0.006
 Symptomatic cholecystolithiasis 116 (46) 31 (31)
ERC prior to CCE, n (%) 50 (20) 27 (27) 0.156
Median time between ERC and CCE, days (±SD) 9 (±96) 4 (±18) 0.006
Laparoscopic CCE, n (%) 225 (90) 92 (91) 0.771
Open CCE, n (%) 25 (10) 9 (9)
Cholangiography, n (%) 7 (3) 1 (1) 0.448

CDL, choledocholithiasis; ERC, endoscopic retrograde cholangiography; CCE, cholecystectomy; BMI, body mass index. Table 1 displays the patient characteristics of the study populations both before the lockdown (2018 & 2019) and during the COVID-19 lockdowns (2020).