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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Surg. 2014 Feb;259(2):381–387. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e31828c4d04

Table 5.

Coincidence and correlation between organ failures.

(A)
Heart Lung Kidney Liver
Heart (77) NN 73 10 16*
Lung (230) 73 NN 16 22
Kidney (16) 10 16 NN 6
Liver (23) 16* 22 6* NN
(B)
1 Organ 2 Organs 3 Organs 4 Organs
Heart (77) 4 51 18 4
Lung (230) 147 59 20 4
Kidney (16) 0 4 8 4
Liver (23) 1 4 14 4

(A) Displays the coincidence of the single organ failures. Logistic regression revealed a statistically significant relationship between liver failure accompanied by heart and renal failure. (B) Depicts the incidence of single and combined organ failures in the patient population.