Research Article
Prevalence of Sarcopenia and Its Effect on Postoperative Complications in Patients with Crohn’s Disease
Table 2
Surgical details in CD patients with or without sarcopenia.
| | All patients () | Sarcopenia () | Nonsarcopenia () | value |
| | Emergency surgery | 16 (12.9) | 2 (5.9) | 14 (15.6) | 0.152 | | Indication for surgery | | | | 0.365 | | Bowel obstruction | 57 (46.0) | 18 (52.9) | 39 (43.3) | | | Fistula | 14 (11.3) | 5 (14.7) | 9 (10.0) | | | Medically refractory disease | 17 (13.7) | 2 (5.9) | 15 (16.7) | | | Perforation | 36 (29.0) | 9 (26.5) | 27 (30.0) | | | Type of surgery | | | | 0.374 | | Open | 91 (73.4) | 23 (67.6) | 68 (75.6) | | | Laparoscopic | 33 (26.6) | 11 (32.4) | 22 (24.4) | | | Colostomy | 50 (40.3) | 16 (47.1) | 34 (37.8) | 0.347 |
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