Table 5 Urinary tract complications with laparoscopic surgery reported in different studies

Baggish et al. 1992 ¹

–

–

4.8

Liu and Reich 1994²

–

0.19

1.4

Garry and Phillips 1995³

1.1

0.3

1.4

Saidi et al. 1996a⁴

0.84

–

–

Saidi et al. 1996b⁵

–

2.9

–

Harris et al. 1996⁶

–

–

1.6

O’Shea et al. 1996⁷

–

–

2.4

Harkki-Siren 1997⁸

–

1.29

–

Hulka et al. 1997⁹

1

0.3

1.3

Meikle et al. 1997¹⁰

1.0–1.8 (vv fistula 0.2)

0.3–0.4

1.3–2.2

Garry 1998¹¹

–

2

–

Tamussino et al. 1998¹²

–

4.3

–

Harkki-Siren 1998¹³

0.22

1.39

1.61

Makinen et al. 2001¹⁴

–

1.1

–

Johnston et al. 2003¹⁵

0.16

0.16

0.32

Garry et al. 2004¹⁶

2.1

0.9

3.0 (LH in AH arm)

0.9

0.3

1.2 (LH in VH arm)

Jha et al. 2004¹⁷

–

1.39–6.0

–

McMaster-Fay and Jones 2006¹⁸

–

0.39

–

Leonard et al. 2007¹⁹

–

0.3

–

NICE 2007²⁰

0.4 (vv fistula 0.2)

1.3

1.7

Range

0.16–2.1

0.16–6.0

0.32–8.1

This study

0.9

1.9

2.8