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. 2022 Aug 12;37(1):371–381. doi: 10.1007/s00464-022-09531-0

Table 2.

Demographic data and clinical characteristics of 680 patients with BSI who underwent NOM-obs, SAE, and surgery

Characteristics NOM-obs SAE Surgery
Total patients 680
No. of patients (%) 294 (43.2) 234 (34.4) 152 (22.4)
Sex
 Male, n (%) 199 (67.7) 189 (80.8) 121 (79.6)
 Female, n (%) 95 (32.3) 45 (19.2) 31 (20.4)
Age (years)* 25 (18–44) 34 (23–50.5) 30 (21–48)
Shock at triage, n (%) 9 (3.1) 43 (18.4) 105 (69.1)
2018 AAST-OIS
 I, n (%) 23 (7.8) 0 6 (3.9)
 II, n (%) 108 (36.7) 3 (1.3) 22 (14.5)
 III, n (%) 125 (42.5) 21 (9.0) 32 (21.0)
 IV, n (%) 34 (11.6) 111 (47.4) 34 (22.4)
 V, n (%) 4 (1.4) 99 (42.3) 58 (38.2)
OIS* 3 (2–3) 4 (4–5) 4 (3–5)
Injury severity score* 9 (5–14.5) 25 (18–29) 25 (17–34)
Length of stay (days)* 6 (5–8) 10 (7–15) 12 (7–17)
Spleen-related morbiditya, n (%) 1 (0.3) 22 (9.4) 9 (5.9)
 Splenic abscess, n (%) 1 (0.3) 7 (3.0) 1 (0.6)
 Rebleeding underwent surgery, n (%) 0 9 (3.8) 7b (4.6)
 Underwent SAE, n (%) 0 6 (2.6%) 1 (0.6%)
Overall mortality, n (%) 1 (0.3) 5 (2.1) 25 (16.4)
Spleen-related mortality, n (%) 0 1 (0.4) 11 (7.2)

BSI blunt splenic injury, NOM-obs nonoperative management with observation, SAE splenic artery embolization, 2018 AAST-OIS 2018 revision of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma-Organ Injury Scale

*Values are median (i.q.r.), acomplication required intervention, b2nd surgery