Research Article
Duodenal Perforation: Outcomes after Surgical Management at a Tertiary Care Centre—A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study
Table 3
Association of mortality with preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative variables, and multivariate analysis for factors affecting mortality.
| | Mortality | Yes (n = 21, 38%) | No (n = 34, 62%) | value |
| Age | ≤50 years (n = 26) | 3 (11.5%) | 23 (88%) | 0.01 | >50 years (n = 29) | 18 (62%) | 11 (38%) |
| Sex | Male (n = 38) | 14 (37%) | 24 (63%) | 0.760 | Female (n = 17) | 7 (41%) | 10 (59%) |
| Aetiology | Ulcer (n = 25) | 11 (44%) | 14 (56%) | 0.479 | Post-ERCP (n = 15) | 6 (40%) | 9 (60%) | Postsurgery (n = 11) | 2 (18%) | 9 (82%) | Trauma (n = 4) | 2 (50%) | 2 (50%) |
| Location | D1 (n = 25) | 11 (44%) | 14 (56%) | 0.418 | D2 (n = 30) | 10 (33%) | 20 (67%) |
| Duration to surgery | <4 days (n = 25) | 5 (20%) | 20 (80%) | 0.045 | ≥4 days (n = 30) | 16 (53%) | 14 (47%) |
| Type of surgery | Repair only (n = 18) | 8 (44%) | 10 (56%) | 0.927 | Repair with diversion (n = 28) | 10 (36%) | 18 (64%) | Diversion only (n = 6) | 2 (33%) | 4 (67%) | Resection (n = 3) | 1 (33%) | 2 (67 %) |
| Preoperative organ failure | Yes (n = 23) | 18 (78%) | 5 (22%) | <0.001 | No (n = 32) | 3 (9.4%) | 29 (90%) |
| Postoperative leak | Yes (n = 11) | 7 (64%) | 4 (37%) | 0.05 | No (n = 44) | 14 (32%) | 30 (69%) |
| Re-exploration | Yes (n = 5) | 4 (80%) | 1 (20%) | 0.044 | No (n = 50) | 17 (34%) | 33 (66%) |
| Multivariate analysis of factors affecting mortality | Age | 0.071 | | | Organ failure | 0.002 | | | Leak | 0.412 | | |
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