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. 2001 Sep;167(9):679-83.
doi: 10.1080/11024150152619327.

Mortality after open cholecystectomy in patients with cirrhosis of the liver: a population-based study in Denmark

A M Thulstrup  1 , H T Sørensen, H Vilstrup
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Mortality after open cholecystectomy in patients with cirrhosis of the liver: a population-based study in Denmark

A M Thulstrup et al. Eur J Surg. 2001 Sep.

Abstract

Objective: To find out if patients with alcoholic cirrhosis are at greater risk of dying within 30 days of cholecystectomy than patients with non-alcoholic cirrhosis or normal controls.

Design: Population-based study.

Setting: Hospitals, Denmark.

Subjects: 23103 patients with liver cirrhosis recorded in the Danish National Registry during the period 1977-94, of whom 110 had an open cholecystectomy; a random sample of 1204 patients without cirrhosis taken from all patients who had a cholecystectomy during the study period.

Main outcome measure: Risk of mortality.

Results: In the group with alcoholic cirrhosis the 30-day mortality was 7.7% and for the controls it was 0.9%. In patients with alcoholic cirrhosis the relative risk of death within 30 days was 11.5 (95% confidence interval 2.8 to 47.4) compared with controls, whereas that for patients with non-alcoholic cirrhosis was 1.1 (95% CI 0.1 to 9.8) compared with controls.

Conclusion: Patients with alcoholic cirrhosis have an 11-fold increased risk of postoperative mortality after undergoing cholecystectomy.

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