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Thirty-six complications (33.6%) developed in 29 patients, and surgical site infection was proven as the most common. Longer delay time prior to hospital admission, low white blood cell count, presence of diabetes mellitus, higher blood levels of aspartate aminotransferase, alanine aminotransferase, alkaline phosphatase and total bilirubin, pericholecystic fluid in abdominal ultrasonography, and conversion from laparoscopic surgery to open surgery were identified as risk factors affecting mortality (P<\/jats:italic> < 0.001, P<\/jats:italic> = 0.001, P<\/jats:italic> = 0.044, P<\/jats:italic> = 0.005, P<\/jats:italic> = 0.049, P<\/jats:italic> = 0.009, P<\/jats:italic> = 0.022, P<\/jats:italic> = 0.011, and P<\/jats:italic> = 0.004, respectively). 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