Table 4 Clinical outcome of patients > 65 with acute cholecystitis
Clinical outcome of all patients > 65 | ||||
Outcome marker | Total n = 186 (%) | Surgery n = 133 (%) | Medicine n = 54 (%) | p |
Days of Hospitalization (±SD) | 8.9 ± 6 | 8.4 ± 6 | 10.2 ± 7 | 0.09 |
Cholecystostomy | 53 (29) | 45 (35) | 8 (15) | < 0.05 |
Bacteremia | 13 (7) | 10 (7) | 3 (6) | 0.9 |
Death | 7 (4) | 6 (4) | 1 (2) | 0.4 |
Clinical outcome of the subset of patients > 75 years | ||||
Outcome marker | Total n = 137 (%) | Surgery n = 91 (%) | Medicine n = 46 (%) | p |
Days of Hospitalization (±SD) | 9.2 ± 7 | 8.8 ± 7 | 10.0 ± 6 | 0.3 |
Cholecystostomy | 41 (28) | 34 (45) | 7 (15) | < 0.05 |
Bacteremia | 11 (8) | 9 (9) | 2 (4) | 0.6 |
Death | 7 (5) | 6 (6) | 1 (2) | 0.7 |