Table 1.

Patients characteristics

variable	n	median	range
Gender (M/F)	102/61
Age (yrs)		55	35-78
Child-Pugh's score		10	6-14
MELD score		18.5	7-37
Maddrey's score		39	13-200
Serum bilirubin (μmol/l)		91	17-636
Blood leucocytes (G/l)		7.4	5-18.3
Neutrophils (G/l)		6.2	3.8-15.2
ASAT (IU/l)		90	47-192
Alkakine phosphatase (IU/l)		160	89-239