Table 1 Patients' baseline characteristics
Overall (n = 158) | Acute-on-chronic liver failure (n = 54) | Acute liver failure (n = 32) | Post-surgery liver failure (n = 25) | Refractory pruritus (n = 35) | Drug intoxication (n = 12) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Demographics | ||||||
Age (years) | 54 [43–64] | 56 [39–65] | 58 [39–65] | 58 [46–67] | 48 [40–54] | 51 [36–57] |
Male gender (n) | 99 (62.7) | 41 (75.9) | 18 (56.3) | 19 (76.0) | 13 (37.1) | 8 (66.7) |
BMI (kg/m2) | 25 [21–28] | 25 [21–29] | 26 [23–29] | 28 [22–29] | 22 [19–24] | 23 [20–25] |
Severity of illness | ||||||
SOFA score | 8 [4–10] | 9 [7–10] | 8 [6–11] | 8 [10–12] | 3 [1–4] | 11 [8–15] |
Respiratory | 0 [0–1] | 0 [0–1] | 1 [0–1] | 1 [0–3] | 0 [0–0] | 2 [1, 2] |
Cardiovascular | 0 [0–0] | 0 [0–0] | 0 [0–3] | 3 [0–4] | 0 [0–0] | 2 [0–4] |
Hepatic | 3 [2–4] | 4 [4] | 3 [2–4] | 4 [2–4] | 2 [0–3] | 0 [0–2] |
Coagulation | 1 [0–2] | 2 [1, 2] | 1 [0–2] | 2 [1, 2] | 0 [0–1] | 1 [0–2] |
Neurologic | 0 [0–1] | 0 [0–2] | 0 [0–3] | 0 [0–2] | 0 [0–0] | 4 [4] |
Renal | 1 [0–2] | 2 [1–3] | 1 [0–4] | 1 [0–1] | 0 [0–0] | 2 [1, 2] |
Catecholamines (n) | 48 (30.4) | 18 (33.3) | 9 (28.1) | 15 (60.0) | 0 (0.0) | 6 (50.0) |
Child Pugh score | NA | 11 [10–12] | NA | NA | NA | NA |
MELD score | NA | 34 [28–39] | 28 [22–39] | NA | NA | NA |