Extravascular lung water levels are associated with mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Table 1 Main characteristics of included studies

Study ID	Year	No. of patients	Country	Type of study	Setting	Type of patient	EVLW indexation	Outcome
Martin et al. [27]	2005	29	USA	Prospective	Medical ICU	Severe sepsis/septic shock	ABW	28-Day mortality
Kuzkov et al. [7]	2006	38	Russia	Prospective	Mixed ICU	Septic shock/ALI	ABW	28-Day mortality
Chung et al. [28]	2008	33	Taiwan	Prospective	Medical ICU	Severe sepsis/septic shock	ABW	In-hospital mortality
Phillips et al. [11]	2008	19	USA	Prospective	ICU	ARDS	PBW/ABW	ICU mortality
Chung et al. [29]	2010	67	Taiwan	Prospective	Medical ICU	Severe sepsis/septic shock	PBW	ICU mortality
Craig et al. [30]	2010	44	UK	Prospective	ICU	ALI/ARDS	PBW/ABW	ICU mortality
Chew et al. [31]	2012	51	Sweden	Prospective	Mixed ICU	Severe sepsis/septic shock	PBW/ABW	ICU mortality
Cordemans et al. [13]	2012	123	Belgium	Retrospective	ICU	Critically ill	ABW	28-Day mortality
Mallat et al. [32]	2012	55	France	Prospective	Mixed ICU	Septic shock	PBW/ABW	ICU mortality
Brown et al. [33]	2013	59	UK	Prospective	ICU	ALI/ARDS	PBW	ICU mortality
Jozwiak et al. [8]	2013	200	France	Retrospective	Medical ICU	ARDS	PBW	28-Day mortality
Huber et al. [26]	2014	50	Germany	Prospective	ICU	Critically ill	PBW	ICU mortality
Tagami et al. [14]	2014	192	Japan	Post-hoc analysis	ICU	ARDS	PBW	28-Day mortality
Zhao et al. [34]	2015	21	China	Prospective	ICU	ARDS	PBW	ICU mortality
Wang et al. [12]	2016	105	China	Retrospective	ICU	Septic shock	PBW	28-Day mortality
Ma et al. [35]	2019	41	China	Retrospective	ICU	ARDS	PBW	In-hospital mortality
Huber et al. [36]	2020	49	Germany	Prospective	ICU	ARDS	PBW	28-Day mortality
Shi et al. [37]	2021	120	France	Prospective	ICU	ARDS	PBW	ICU mortality

ABW actual body weight, ALI acute lung injury, ARDS acute respiratory distress syndrome, EVLW extravascular lung water, ICU intensive care unit, PBW predicted body weight, UK United Kingdom, USA United States of America

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