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Using prospectively collected data from a U.S. surgical outcomes database, researchers assessed morbidity and mortality in 12,732 patients undergoing elective surgery for benign colon polyps, primarily in academic centers. Results were as follows:
Thirty-day surgical mortality was 0.7%, and a major postoperative adverse event (e.g., ostomy, infection, leak, renal failure, cardiac or cerebrovascular event, extended ventilation or hospitalization, death) occurred in 14%.
The readmission rate within 30 days was 7.8%, and 3.6% had a second major surgery.
A colostomy was done in 1.8% and ileostomy in 0.4%.
Only 4% of polyps were rectal, but these patients had a 1.6-fold higher risk for surgical site infection and 6.5-fold higher risk for ostomy than…