Table 2.

Prognostic value of extravascular lung water in critically ill patients

	Study	Number of patients	Type of EVLW indexation	Prognostic value
General critically ill patients	Sakka et al. [4]	373	Actual body weight	Independent predictor of ICU mortality
Severe sepsis or septic shock patients	Martin et al. [3]	29	Actual body weight	Higher EVLWI in ICU non-survivors
	Chung et al. [75]	33	Actual body weight	Independent predictor of in-hospital survival
	Chung et al. [76]	67	Actual body weight	Independent factor for the development of MODS
	Chew et al. [73]	51	Actual and predicted body weight	Higher EVLWI in ICU non-survivors
	Mallat et al. [78]	55	Actual and predicted body weight	Independent predictor of ICU mortality
ARDS patients	Philips [85]	59	Actual and predicted body weight	Good predictor of ICU mortality
	Craig et al. [45]	44	Predicted body weight	Independent predictor of ICU mortality
	Brown et al. [37]	59	Predicted body weight	Independent predictor of ICU mortality
	Jozwiak et al. [36]	200	Predicted body weight	Independent predictor of Day-28 mortality

ARDS: acute respiratory distress syndrome, EVLWI: indexed extravascular lung water, ICU: intensive care unit, MODS: multiple organ dysfunction syndrome