Elevated Serum Levels of Mixed Lineage Kinase Domain-Like Protein Predict Survival of Patients during Intensive Care Unit Treatment

Table 2

Correlations of MLKL serum concentrations at admission day and three days of ICU treatment with other laboratory markers.

	ICU patients
	MLKL at admission		MLKL at d3
Parameters
Markers of liver function
AST	0.279	0.002	0.225	0.039
Bilirubin	0.247	0.004	0.090	0.339
LDH	0.207	0.015	0.266	0.01
Markers of inflammation
CRP	0.028	0.752	0.032	0.766
Procalcitonin	0.148	0.167	0.075	0.526
Markers of renal function
Creatinine	0.229	0.008	0.129	0.220
Urea	0.172	0.046	0.114	0.279
Others
TNF-alpha	0.309	0.044	0.249	0.112
suPAR	0.179	0.042	0.101	0.335
Serum lactate	0.197	0.028	0.088	0.427

r: correlation coefficient; : value. and values by Spearman’s rank correlation.