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Table 2 Effect of hysterectomy approach on the risk of major morbidities and mortality

From: Abdominal versus laparoscopic hysterectomies for benign diseases: evaluation of morbidity and mortality among 465,798 cases

Outcome

Abdominal hysterectomy

Laparoscopic hysterectomy

OR (95 % CI)

P value

DVT

2,879 (0.74 %)

502 (0.66 %)

0.88 (0.80–0.96)

0.04

PE

3,099 (0.8 %)

522 (0.68 %)

0.85 (0.77–0.93)

0.006

DVT or PE

3,281 (0.84 %)

529 (0.69 %)

0.48 (0.24–0.95)

0.0004

Blood transfusion

18,124 (4.7 %)

1,805 (2.4 %)

0.56 (0.42–0.74)

0.0001

Bowel perforation

490 (0.13 %)

52 (0.07)

N/A

0.0001

Bladder injury

17 (<0.01 %)

0 (0 %)

0.29 (0.27–0.31)

N/A

Acute MI

133 (0.03 %)

13 (0.02 %)

0.58 (0.55–0.61)

0.2

Length of stay >6 days

15,917 (4.1 %)

804 (1.1 %)

0.29 (0.27–0.31)

0.0001

Death

123 (0.03 %)

9 (0.01 %)

0.69 (0.39–1.2)

0.036

  1. DVT deep vein thrombosis, PE pulmonary embolism, MI myocardial infarction, N/A not available