Dialysate White Blood Cell Change after Initial Antibiotic Treatment Represented the Patterns of Response in Peritoneal Dialysis-Related Peritonitis

Table 3

Dialysate white blood cell count five days after antibiotics treatment, categorized by early response, delayed response, and failure groups.

Day of treatment	⁢Dialysate WBC, cell/mm^3 (geometric mean SE)
	Early response ()	Delayed response ()	Failure ()
Day 0	2202 348	3024 603	2195 452
Day 1	1174 220	2650 476	1633 403
Day 2	164 72	1028 307	1494 340
Day 3	27 54	613 295	1264 278
Day 4	9 25	409 164	1004 255
Day 5	3 1	345 151	895 274
% reduction (developed model)	68.4 [67.4, 69.3]	34.0 [30.7, 37.0]	14.2 [9.8, 18.2]
% reduction (bootstrapping model)	68.1 [67.5, 68.7]	30.8 [28.7, 32.9]	12.9 [10.1, 15.1]

WBC: white blood cells; % reduction presented in average rate per day [95% confident interval].
value < 0.001 for all comparisons by multiple comparison under multilevel modeling.