Table 3.

Multivariate analysis of predictive factors of peak concentration of procalcitonin in recipients

Variable	P univariate	P multivariate
Age of recipient	0.7	NS
Cold ischemia	0.97	NS
Warm ischemia	0.18	NS
Veno-venous bypass	0.34	NS
Liver vascular exclusion tolerance	0.01	NS
Transfusion of recipient	0.22	NS
Procalcitonin donor concentration	0.005	NS
Pre-liver transplantation procalcitonin concentration	0.37	NS
Severe portal hypertension	0.07	NS
Epinephrine or norepinephrine doses in donor	0.07	NS
Days in intensive care unit of donor	0.03	NS
Age of donor	0.5	NS
Heart retrieval	0.16	NS
Cardiac arrest in donor	<0.0001	0.001
Infection in donor	<0.0001	0.0039

NS, not significant.