Bacterobilia in pancreatic surgery-conclusions for perioperative antibiotic prophylaxis

Table 1 Surgical treatment data from 285 patients with pancreatic head resection

	All patients, n = 285 (%)	With bacteriobilia (BB+), n = 150 (%)	Without bacteriobilia (BB-), n = 135 (%)	P value
Indications
Malignancy	n = 202 (71)	n = 114 (56)a	n = 88 (44)	< 0.05
cP1	n = 51 (18)	n =23 (45)	n =28 (55)	0.23
Others	n = 32 (11)	n =13 (41)	n =19 (59)	0.15
Biliary drainage
PBD+	n =144 (51)	n = 120 (83)b	n = 24 (17)	< 0.01
PBD-	n =141 (49)	n = 30 (21)b	n = 111 (79)
Cholestasis
PC+	n = 120 (42)	n = 73 (61)c	n = 47 (39)	0.02
PC-	n = 165 (58)	n = 77 (47)c	n = 88 (53)

¹cP = Chronic pancreatitis.

^aP < 0.05 vs BB-;

^bP < 0.01 vs BB-;

^cP = 0.02 vs BB-. PBD: Preoperative biliary drainage; PC: Preoperative cholestasis; BB: Bacterobilia.