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Table 5 Characteristics of the surgical patients

From: Neutrophil apoptosis: a marker of disease severity in sepsis and sepsis-induced acute respiratory distress syndrome

 

Uncomplicated sepsis (n = 8)

Septic shock (n = 11)

Sepsis-induced ARDS (n = 9)

Mechanical ventilation (n = 9)

Controls (n = 11)

P value

Age (years, mean ± SEM)

64.0 ± 3.3

58 ± 7.4

49.5 ± 6.9

51 ± 5

45.9 ± 5.5

0.1

Male/Female (percentage)

75/25

45.5/54.5

55.6/44.4

77.8/22.2

54.5/45.5

0.5a

APACHE II score (percentage)

15.3 ± 1.8

21.1 ± 1.9

21.7 ± 3.9

-

-

0.1

Maximum SOFA score (percentage)

6.8 ± 1.1

10 ± 1.3

12.2 ± 0.8

-

-

<0.001b

Organ dysfunction (percentage)

      

0

0

9.1

11.1

-

-

-

1

50

18.2

44.4

-

-

-

2

37.5

36.4

22.2

-

-

-

3

12.5

18.2

22.2

-

-

-

4

0

18.2

0

   

Organ failure (percentage)

      

0

12.5

9.1

0

-

-

-

1

62.5

36.4

11.1

-

-

-

2

25

36.4

66.7

-

-

-

3

0

18.2

22.2

-

-

-

Mortality in 28 days (percentage)

62.5

45.5

66.7

-

-

-

Neutrophil apoptosis (mean percentage ± SEM)

35 ± 3.2

36 ± 5.2

29 ± 2.1

32 ± 3.9

52 ± 3.6

<0.001b

  1. aP value from the comparisons using χ2 test; bp value from the comparisons using analysis-of-variance test. APACHE II, Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Disease Classification System II; ARDS, acute respiratory distress syndrome; SEM, standard error of the mean; SOFA, sequential organ failure assessment.
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