Current Scenario of Postcholecystectomy Bile Leak and Bile Duct Injury at a Tertiary Care Referral Centre of Nepal

Table 4

Comparison of the present study with the previous study from our centre.

Parameters	Current study (2014–2019)	Previous study (2001–2010); Gupta et al. [7]
Total cholecystectomies (in-hospital)	2,300	11,345
Mean age, years, (range)	40 (16–55)	46.5 (23–68)
Referred	5 (27.8%)	15 (16.3%)
Index hospital	13 (72.2%)	77 (83.7%)
Overall incidence
Major bile duct injury	8 (0.35%)
In-hospital major bile duct injury	5 (0.21%)	77 (0.68%) (Z = 2.659 and )
Bile leak	10 (0.43%)	NA
Morbidity	2 (11.1%)	NA
Mortality (30 and 90 days)	0	3 (3.3%)
Follow-up	(n = 18)	(n = 75)
Median follow-up (mo)	13	31
Restricture	0	3 (4%)
Good outcome	18 (100%)	62 (82%)