Clinical Study

Good Tolerance of Citrate Accumulation due to Plasma Exchange among Patients with Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure: A Prospective, Observational Study

Table 3

Disease state during hospitalization and short-term prognosis.

Hospital stay, days26.0 ± 13.4
Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis, yes/no30/24
Infection, yes/no16/38
Hemorrhage, yes/no7/47
Hepatorenal syndrome, yes/no12/42
Hepatic encephalopathy, yes/no15/39
Three-month survival, yes/31/23

ALSS, artificial liver support system. patients received living donor liver transplantation during hospitalization or the 3-month follow-up period, we assume here that they have died. Measurement data are represented as mean ± SD. Enumeration data are represented as frequencies.