The Diagnostic and Prognostic Values of C-Reactive Protein and Procalcitonin during Bacterial Infections in Decompensated Cirrhosis

Table 6

Clinical and laboratory variables associated with 3-month mortality in the BI group.

	Surviving	Deceased	value
Sex	16/21	9/14	0.184
Child-Pugh (class)
A	0%	3%	0.427
B	4%	43%	0.001
C	96%	54%	0.001
Child-Pugh score			0.004
Respiratory rate			0.720
Temperature			0.004
WBC (cells/lL)			0.027
Neutrophil count (cells/lL)			0.018
Platelets (cells/lL)			0.008
PT (%)			0.031
CRP (mg/L)			0.041
PCT (ng/mL)			0.131
Creatinine (μmol/L)			0.045
AST (IU/L)			0.396
MELD			0.005

PT: prothrombin time; WBC: white blood cells; CRP: C-reactive protein; PCT: procalcitonin; AST: aspartate aminotransferase; MELD: Model for End-Stage Liver Disease.