Preoperative Serum IL-12p40 Is a Potential Predictor of Kasai Portoenterostomy Outcome in Infants with Biliary Atresia

Table 4

Correlation of IL-2p40 with age, laboratory, and histopathological parameters of the studied patients.

Parameters	IL-12p40
	r	value
Age (days)	0.075	0.629
Total bilirubin (mg/dl)	0.198	0.089
Direct bilirubin (mg/dl)	0.114	0.33
Albumin (g/dl)	−0.0285	0.469
Alanine aminotransferase (U/l)	−0.02	0.865
Aspartate aminotransferase (U/l)	−0.08	0.497
Alkaline phosphatase (U/l)	0.087	0.457
Gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase (U/l)	−0.042	0.723
Prothrombin time (seconds)	0.224	0.053
Hemoglobin (g/dl)	−0.183	0.117
White blood cells (×10^3/mm^3)	0.102	0.385
Platelets (×10^3/mm^3)	−0.013	0.912
Grade of liver fibrosis	−0.06	0.607
Necroinflammatory activity	−0.107	0.362

BA: biliary atresia; IL-12p40: interleukin-12 p40 subunit; r: correlation coefficient.