Clinical Study

Association between Early Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome after Living-Donor Liver Transplantation and Perioperative Serum Biomarkers: The Role of Club Cell Protein 16

Table 1

Pretransplant patient characteristics.

with ARDS (N=13)without ARDS (N=60) P value

Age (yr)58.8 ± 6.152.6 ± 9.60.0287

Gender (Male, %)6(46.15%)38(63.33%)0.2511

BMI (kg/m2)25.8 ± 4.524.0 ± 3.90.1854

Serum albumin level (g/dL)3.0 ± 0.63.3 ± 0.80.1227

Etiologies of end-stage liver disease
 Viral hepatitis9(69.2%)44(73.3%)0.7652
 Others4(30.8%)16(26.7%)

MELD score18 ±10.214.8 ± 8.10.2158

FVC, % of prediction86.8 ± 24.790.3 ± 18.30.5782

FEV1, % of prediction88.0 ± 25.890.0 ± 19.00.7614

BMI = body mass index; ARDS = acute respiratory distress syndrome; MELD = model for end-stage liver disease; FVC = forced vital capacity; FEV1 = forced expiratory volume in 1 second.