Clinical outcomes
The average postoperative stay for group A was 8.58 +/*11.5 days and for group B was 7.31 +/- 7.5 days with no significant difference between groups (p 0.13). With regards to mortality and major haemorrhagic morbidity there was no significant differences between groups. There were 2 deaths in each group and in group A, seven patients required re-operation for bleeding, tamponade (1.5%) , whereas in group B this figure was 3 (1.3%).