Research Article

Nomograms Predicting the Occurrence of Sepsis in Patients following Major Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery

Table 2

Clinical characteristics and inflammation biomarkers in the training cohort. Data are shown as the or median (P25 and P75).

VariableTraining cohort
Sepsis (-), Sepsis (+),

Age0.02
Sex
 Male305340.61
 Female16221
Perioperative blood transfusion
 Yes16538≤0.001
 No30217
ASA scores
 1101≤0.001
 239242
 36411
 411
Diabetes
 Yes78170.01
 No38938
BMI0.01
Operative time (min)280 (210-340)345 (262.5-431)0.03
Intraoperative blood loss300 (200-600)400 (200-800)
Preoperative ALT44 (20.45-122.5)62 (24.5-104.9)0.53
Preoperative AST35.6 (20.85-98.95)42.6 (26.4-81.9)0.47
Preoperative direct bilirubin5.1 (3.2-31)35.5 (5.1-132.05)≤0.001
Inflammation biomarkers
 IL-1 (pg/ml)5 (5-5)5 (5-5)0.46
 IL-2 (U/ml)767 (600-1023)1034 (699.5-1378.5)≤0.001
 IL-6 (pg/ml)82.2 (46.15-164.5)171 (102-274)≤0.001
 IL-8 (pg/ml)89 (40.2-190)105 (55.55-242)0.18
 IL-10 (pg/ml)5.78 (5-10)9.56 (5.86-14.35)≤0.001
 TNF-α (pg/ml)16.3 (11-30.55)16.5 (10.5-24.95)0.50
 PCT (ng/ml)0.55 (0.28-1.01)1.53 (0.809-3.29)≤0.001
 CRP (mg/dl)3.73 (1.96-6.29)6.62 (4.62-9.35)≤0.001
 NLR11.1 (7.73-15.73)12.17 (8.10-16.94)0.39