Feasibility and Safely of Oral Rehydration Therapy before Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection

Table 2

Patient characteristics.

	PORT (120)	Non-PORT (120)	value
Age ()			0.47
Sex (male, female)	93, 27	90, 30	0.71
Hematocrit before admission (, %)			0.85
Comorbidity for Charlson’s score ()			0.57
Myocardial infarction	5	6	0.76
Cerebral infarction	3	3	1
Diabetic mellitus	10	12	0.66
Chronic kidney disease	4	5	0.73
Antithrombotic therapy	8	10	0.62
Location (esophagus, stomach, and duodenum)	39, 79, 2	44, 76, 0	0.48

PORT: preoperative oral rehydration therapy; SD: standard deviation.