Table 1 Characteristics of the patients
From: In vivo quantification of rolling and adhered leukocytes in human sepsis
Characteristic | Sepsis (n = 64) | Control (n = 32) |
|---|---|---|
Past medical history, n (%) | ||
- Diabetes mellitus | 21 (32.8) | 6 (18.8) |
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | 20 (31.3) | 2 (6.3) |
- Liver disease | 4 (6.3) | 2 (6.3) |
- End-stage renal disease | 4 (6.3) | 2 (6.3) |
- AIDS | 0 (0) | 2 (6.3) |
- Cancer | 19 (29.7) | 5 (15.6) |
Metastatic cancer | 13 (20.3) | 2 (6.3) |
- CHF | 14 (21.9) | 2 (6.3) |
- Myocardial infarction | 7 (10.9) | 4 (12.5) |
- Dementia | 3 (4.7) | 1 (3.1) |
Race | ||
- White | 50 (78.1) | 22 (68.8) |
- Black | 5 (7.8) | 8 (25.0) |
- Asian | 6 (9.4) | 0 (0.0) |
- Other | 3 (4.7) | 2 (6.3) |
Age (SD) | 64.8 (13.6) | 53.3 (19.0) |
Male | 34 (53.1) | 19 (59.4) |
Infection | ||
- Catheter related | 4 (4) | |
- CNS | 1 (1.61) | |
- Endocarditis | 1 (1.61) | |
- Intra-abdominal | 8 (8) | |
- None | 2 (3.23) | |
- Other | 3 (4.84) | |
- Pneumonia | 21 (33.87) | |
- Skin and soft tissue | 3 (4.84) | |
- Unknown | 6 (9.68) | |
- Urosepsis | 13 (20.97) | |
Sepsis-related variables | ||
Leukocyte count (per microliter), mean (SD) | 14.6 (10.0) | |
Serum lactate (mmol/l), mean (SD) | 2.0 (1.8) | |
SOFA score, mean (SD) | 7.4 (3.5) | |
Mortality rate, n (%) | 11 (17%) | |