Mortality following elective and emergency colectomy in patients with cirrhosis: a population-based cohort study from England.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients with cirrhosis undergoing colectomy have a higher risk of postoperative mortality, but contemporary estimates are lacking and data on associated risk and longer term outcomes are limited. This study aimed to quantify the risk of mortality following colectomy by urgency of surgery and stage of cirrhosis.

Data sources

Linked primary and secondary-care electronic healthcare data from England were used to identify all patients undergoing colectomy from January 2001 to December 2017. These patients were classified by the absence or presence of cirrhosis and severity. Case fatality rates at 90 days and 1 year were calculated, and cox regression was used to estimate the hazard ratio of postoperative mortality controlling for age, gender and co-morbidity.

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SUBMITTER: Adiamah A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8885503 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature