Timing of surgical repair of bile duct injuries after laparoscopic cholecystectomy: A systematic review

Table 5 Outcome after bile duct injury within 14 d or later

Timing of repair	≤ 14 d (n = 1757)	> 14 d (n = 2031)	P
Type of surgery
HJS	100 (73-100)	100 (68-100)	0.842
End-to-end	0 (0-27)	0 (0-5)	0.352
Complications	33 (21-41)	22 (18-25)	0.085
Bile leak	11 (5-21)	6 (0-12)	0.453
Wound infection	5 (0-14)	9 (6-18)	0.593
Abnormal liver function	11 (0-21)	10	-
Cholangitis	11 (10-35)	9 (9-10)	0.348
Jaundice	13 (5-21)	-	-
Redo HJS	23 (4-42)	0	-
Intervention	16 (14-18)	17	-
Stricture	18 (12-43)	13 (5-23)	0.352
Time to stricture (mo)	17 (10-62)	3	-
Mortality	2 (0-3)	4 (3-5)	0.203

After exclusion of overlapping definitions of timing, two groups at a cut off of 14 d were formed. Again outcome was comparable between early (≤ 14 d) and delayed (> 14 d) BDI repair. HJS: Hepaticojejunostomy.