Association of Serum Creatinine Level with Prognosis of Laparotomy for Acute Mesenteric Ischemia after Cardiovascular Surgery

Table 1

Patient characteristics.

Variables	Total (n = 29)
Sex
Male (%)	20 (69.0)
Female (%)	9 (31.0)
Age, years^a	71.0 (62.0–79.0)
Type of acute mesenteric ischemia
Occlusive mesenteric ischemia, n (%)	17 (58.6)
Nonocclusive mesenteric ischemia, n (%)	12 (41.4)
Detailed procedure of index cardiovascular surgery
CABG, n (%)	1 (3.5)
Total arch replacement, n (%)	4 (13.8)
Ascending aorta replacement, n (%)	1 (3.5)
Descending aorta replacement, n (%)	2 (6.9)
Y-graft replacement, n (%)	5 (17.2)
Thoracic endovascular aortic repair, n (%)	6 (20.7)
Endovascular aortic repair, n (%)	5 (17.2)
Treatment of peripheral artery, n (%)	5 (17.2)
Duration between cardiovascular surgery and acute mesenteric ischemia, days^a	1.5 (0–41.3)
P-POSSUM-predicted mortality rate (%)^a	82.0 (33.0–98.3)
Outcome after laparotomy
Hospital discharge, n (%)	12 (41.4)
Hospital transfer, n (%)	4 (13.8)
In-hospital mortality, n (%)	13 (44.8)

^aMedian (interquartile range). CABG, coronary artery bypass grafting; P-POSSUM, Portsmouth physiological and operative severity score for the enumeration of mortality and morbidity.