Table 2.
Postoperative Indices of Infection after Sternotomy Procedures
| Parameter | Postoperative Day* |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre | 7 | 14 | 28 | 50 | 65 | 77 | |
| WBC (K/μL) | 12 ± 2 | 9 ± 3 | 11 ± 1 | 12 ± 1 | 12 ± 2 | 13 | 11 |
| Hb(g/dL) | 12 ± 0.8 | 9 ± 1 | 10 ± 1 | 11 ± 1 | 11 ± 2 | 11 | 10 |
| HCT (%) | 35 ± 1 | 27 ± 4 | 29 ± 3 | 31 ± 2 | 32 ± 5 | 31 | 28 |
| Neutrophils (%) | 24 ± 8 | 27 ± 13 | 16 ± 1 | 27 ± 6 | 17 ± 1 | 40 | 39 |
| Lymphocytes (%) | 71 ± 5 | 61 ± 15 | 66 ± 11 | 54 ± 1 | 64 ± 4 | 46 | 49 |
| Total bilirubin (mg/dL) | 0.1 ± 0 | 0.1 ± 0 | 0.1 ± 0 | 0.1 ± 0 | 0.1 ± 0 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| BUN (mg/dL) | 6.3 ± 2.1 | 4.0 ± 2.6 | 3.5 ± 0.7 | 6.0 ± 0 | 9.0 ± 0 | 4.0 | 5.0 |
| Creatinine (mg/dL) | 0.5 ± 0 | 0.3 ± 0 | 0.4 ± 0 | 0.4 ± 0 | 0.5 ± 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.3 |
Data after postoperative day 50 were obtained from study 1 only.
*
Data after postoperative day 15 includes only studies 1 and 3.
Pre, preoperative; WBC, white blood cell; Hb, hemoglobin, HCT, hematocrit; BUN, blood urea nitrogen.