Table 4.

Serum cytokine concentration measured by 25-plex Luminex® pre-liver transplantation (LT), 1 month post-LT, 6 months post-LT and 1 year post-LT in hepatitis C virus (HCV)-infected patients who were or were not perioperatively transfused

Cytokine	Pre-LT			1 month post-LT			6 months post-LT			1 year post-LT
	Group 1, non-transfused	Group 2, transfused	P-value	Group 1, non-transfused	Group 2, transfused	P-value	Group 1, non-transfused	Group 2, transfused	P-value	Group 1, non-transfused	Group 2, transfused	P-value
IL-17, pg/ml	64.3 ± 11.2	70.2 ± 20.2	0.10	13.4 ± 8.71	44.1 ± 11.5	0.03	24.5 ± 15.6	88.9 ± 20.1	0.014	33.3 ± 5.5	100.3 ± 22.2	0.011
IL-1β, pg/ml	45.4 ± 16.1	40.5 ± 15.3	0.22	10.2 ± 7.33	40.4 ± 7.9	0.01	34.5 ± 9.3	70.5 ± 6.5	0.00	29.4 ± 11.1	88.3 ± 18.5	0.002
IL-6, pg/ml	50.4 ± 14.9	60.1 ± 21.5	0.54	12.1 ± 6.21	64.3 ± 11.3	0.01	27.5 ± 13.8	80.1 ± 20.1	0.009	30.3 ± 9.9	94.4 ± 25.3	0.005
IL-4, pg/ml	70.1 ± 17.3	79.5 ± 16.4	0.44	43.2 ± 10.5	98.5 ± 20.1	0.02	39.3 ± 8.1	120.3 ± 17.9	0.003	44.8 ± 13.9	111.3 ± 12.2	0.002
IL-5, pg/ml	55.6 ± 20.2	70.9 ± 28.4	0.21	15.3 ± 4.4	52.2 ± 11.6	0.02	50.6 ± 20.3	89.4 ± 18.9	0.010	55.5 ± 25.2	100.3 ± 21.7	0.020
IL-10, pg/ml	47.9 ± 11.4	54.3 ± 17.7	0.69	13.3 ± 6.5	39.2 ± 10.1	0.03	40.5 ± 4.9	68.8 ± 5.7	0.040	44.5 ± 18.3	74.3 ± 19.2	0.010
IFN-γ, pg/ml	20.4 ± 5.6	19.9 ± 6.1	0.8	95.3 ± 17.7	45.6 ± 18.9	0.01	124.9 ± 29.4	30.1 ± 10.3	0.001	100.9 ± 8.0	23.1 ± 11.2	0.001
TGF-β, pg/ml	145.7 ± 21.9	120.3 ± 24.3	0.32	24.5 ± 3.7	60.5 ± 11.9	0.009	40.5 ± 18.9	166.4 ± 31.4	0.002	50.3 ± 23.4	188.9 ± 31.5	0.005

IL, interleukin; IFN, interferon; TGF, transforming growth factor.