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 ± 6.1
52.6 ± 9.6
0.0287
Gender (Male, %)
6(46.15%)
38(63.33%)
0.2511
BMI (kg/m2)
25.8 ± 4.5
24.0 ± 3.9
0.1854
Serum albumin level (g/dL)
3.0 ± 0.6
3.3 ± 0.8
0.1227
Etiologies of end-stage liver disease
Viral hepatitis
9(69.2%)
44(73.3%)
0.7652
Others
4(30.8%)
16(26.7%)
MELD score
18 ±10.2
14.8 ± 8.1
0.2158
FVC, % of prediction
86.8 ± 24.7
90.3 ± 18.3
0.5782
FEV1, % of prediction
88.0 ± 25.8
90.0 ± 19.0
0.7614
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.