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Table 5.

Effect of infection on the incidence of postoperative hyperbilirubinaemia

	C group		E group

	Noninfected	Infected	Noninfected	Infected
n	101	32	33	41
non-HYB	63 (62)	2 (6)	21 (64)	6 (15)
Mortality	3 (3)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)
HYB	38 (38)	30 (94)^*	12 (36)	35 (85)^*
Mortality	1 (1)	7 (22)^*†	0 (0)	0 (0)

Patients in group C were subjected to open-heart surgery; patients in group E were subjected to oesophagectomy. Values are expressed as number (percentage). ^*P<0.05, versus patients without infection; ^†P<0.05, versus patients without hyperbilirubinaemia (HYB).