Surgery Improves Long-Term Survival in Kidney Failure Patients with Acute Cholecystitis: Study
Researchers have identified in a new study that patients with renal failure undergoing chronic kidney replacement therapy (KRT), such as dialysis or kidney transplantation, are at high risk of postoperative complications. The results indicate that while surgery is at increased risk of early complications, it is linked with better survival at 12 months. The study was conducted by Dharmenaan and colleagues published in the Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences.
A bi-national population cohort study was done with the assistance of Australia and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant (ANZDATA) Registry data and jurisdictional hospital admission data. All incident and prevalent patients receiving chronic KRT between 2000 and 2015 were included in the study. Those patients diagnosed with acute cholecystitis were identified by using the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) and divided into two groups based on whether or not they underwent cholecystectomy and how they were managed nonoperatively. Comorbidity-adjusted Cox models were used to examine 30-day and 12-month mortality between groups.
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