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Table 4 Cox proportional hazard model for mortality

From: Model of end stage liver disease (MELD) score greater than 23 predicts length of stay in the ICU but not mortality in liver transplant recipients

Parameter

P value

Hazard ratio

Confidence interval

Incidence of HRS pre TPL

0.016

13.2

1.6-108.8

Sepsis in ICU

0.011

8.9

1.6-47.6

Transfusion > 7 RBC

0.045

7.6

1.04-55.6

Renal replacement therapy in ICU

0.002

6.8

2.0-22.7

Use of marginal grafts

0.39

1.6

0.6-4.6

Transfusion > 10 FFP

0.93

1.0

0.9-1.1

Peak bilirubin serum level

0.25

1.0

0.9-1.1

Diabetes mellitus preoperative

0.65

1.3

0.4-4.4

MELD > 23

0.26

1.1

0.9-1.3

Gender

0.56

1.4

0.4-4.9

Age

0.41

1.0

0.9-1.1

  1. FFP, fresh frozen plasma; HRS, hepatorenal syndrome; MELD, model of end-stage liver disease; RBC, red blood cells; TPL, transplantation.
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