Table 2.
Liver trauma characteristics and management.
| CHVI − n=291 |
CHVI + n=27 |
P | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristics of liver trauma upon admission | |||
| AAST grade, n (%) | – | – | – |
| I–II | 137 (47.1) | 5 (18.5) | |
| III–V | 154 (52.9) | 22 (81.5) | 0.008 |
| Type, n (%) | |||
| Hematoma | 189 (65.2) | 11 (42.3) | |
| Laceration | 94 (33.2) | 16 (59.3) | 0.013 |
| Mixt | 4 (1.4) | 0 (0.0) | – |
| Tearing | 2 (0.7) | 0 (0.0) | – |
| Side of the liver concerned | 0.019 | ||
| Right | 161 (59.0) | 14 (51.9) | – |
| Left | 75 (27.5) | 4 (14.8) | – |
| Both | 37 (13.6) | 9 (33.3) | 0.015 |
| Number of segments, n (%) | |||
| 1 | 60 (20.6) | 1 (3.9) | |
| >1 | 156 (56.9) | 19 (70.4) | 0.252 |
| >2 | 49 (17.9) | 5 (18.5) | 1.000 |
| >3 | 26 (9.4) | 2 (7.4) | 1.000 |
| Active bleeding, n (%) | 37 (12.7) | 5 (18.5) | 0.319 |
| Arterial | 24 (8.2) | 2 (7.4) | – |
| Venous | 13 (4.5) | 3 (11.1) | – |
| Follow-up and post-traumatic morbimortality | |||
| RBC transfusion, n (%) | 116 (45.0) | 8 (30.8) | 0.237 |
| FFP transfusion, n (%) | 87 (29.9) | 4 (14.8) | 0.261 |
| ICU admission, n (%) | 236 (81.4) | 17 (63.0) | 0.042 |
| Length of stay in ICU, days | 8 | 7 | 0.648 |
| Total length of stay, days | 16.6 | 17.8 | 0.740 |
| Clavien–Dindo | – | – | 0.004 |
| I–II | 28 (9.7) | 8 (30.8) | |
| III–IV | 72 (25.0) | 8 (30.7) | |
| Bilioma, n (%) | 14 (4.8) | 4 (14.8) | 0.086 |
| Liver insufficiency, n (%) | 1 (0.3) | 0 (0.0) | 1.000 |
| Delayed hemorrhage, n (%) | 4 (1.4) | 5 (18.5) | <0.001 |
| Death, n (%) | 37 (12.8) | 1 (3.8) | |
Bold values are statistical significance P<0.05.
AAST, American association for the surgery of trauma; FFP, Fresh frozen plasma; RBC, Red blood cells.