Conservative treatment of early postoperative small bowel obstruction with obliterative peritonitis

Table 4 Treatment-related complications n (%)

	TPN (n = 34)	TDS (n = 36)	P value
Morbidity
Cholestasis	5 (14.7)	8 (22.2)	0.419
Patients requiring PTC	2 (5.9)	5 (13.9)	0.264
Infectious complications	8 (23.5)	7 (19.4)	0.677
Catheter-related infections	5 (14.7)	4 (11.1)	0.653
Wound infection	2 (5.9)	1 (2.8)	0.522
Pneumonia	1 (2.9)1	0	0.300
Pneumothorax	0	2 (5.5)	0.163
Overall complications	13 (38.2)	15 (41.7)	0.770

¹Patient had tracheostomy. TDS: TPN + DM + SS; TPN: Total parenteral nutrition; DM: Dexamethasone; SS: Somatostatin; PTC: Percutaneous transhepatic cholecystostomy.