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Table 5 Effect of infection on the incidence of postoperative hyperbilirubinaemia

From: Hyperbilirubinaemia after major thoracic surgery: comparison between open-heart surgery and oesophagectomy

 

C group

E group

 

Noninfected

Infected

Noninfected

Infected

n

101

32

33

41

non-HYB

63 (62)

2 (6)

21 (64)

6 (15)

Mortality

3 (3)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

HYB

38 (38)

30 (94)*

12 (36)

35 (85)*

Mortality

1 (1)

7 (22)*†

0 (0)

0 (0)

  1. Patients in group C were subjected to open-heart surgery; patients in group E were subjected to oesophagectomy. Values are expressed as number (percentage). *P<0.05, versus patients without infection; †P<0.05, versus patients without hyperbilirubinaemia (HYB).
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