Risk Factors for Sepsis Based on Sepsis-3 Criteria after Orthotopic Liver Transplantation

Table 6

Postoperative clinical characteristics of patients with or without orthotopic liver transplantation- (OLT-) related sepsis (reported as (%), unless otherwise noted).

	Sepsis-negative	Sepsis-positive
Subjects,	41	85	—
Albumin infusion, ml	1700 (600–2450)	2100 (950–2900)	0.357
Pneumonia	29 (70.7)	53 (62.4)	0.720
Intestinal infection	13 (31.7)	18 (21.2)	0.328
Serum potassium
Normal	29 (70.7)	37 (43.5)	0.060
Hypokalemia	11 (26.8)	46 (54.1)
Hyperkalemia	2 (4.8)	2 (2.3)
Blood glucose
Normal	8 (19.5)	27 (31.8)	0.231
Abnormal^a	33 (80.5)	58 (68.2)

^aAll of the abnormal blood glucose patients were in hyperglycemia, except one patient was in hypoglycemia in the sepsis-positive group.