Table IV.
Independent risk factors for post-operative survival in patients aged ≥80 years.
| Univariate analysis | Multivariate analysis | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Factor | P-value | Risk ratio | 95% CI | P-value | |
| Age (years) | 0.72 | ||||
| ≥83/<83 | |||||
| Gender | 0.42 | ||||
| Male/female | |||||
| Alcohol abuse | 0.07 | ||||
| Yes/no | |||||
| Etiology | 0.93 | ||||
| NBNC/HCV and/or HBV | |||||
| Platelet count (104/µl) | 0.43 | ||||
| ≥15/<15 | |||||
| Prothrombin activity (%) | 0.92 | ||||
| ≥90/<90 | |||||
| AST (IU/l) | 0.44 | ||||
| ≥40/<40 | |||||
| ALT (IU/l) | 0.20 | ||||
| ≥40/<40 | |||||
| Total bilirubin (mg/dl) | 0.81 | ||||
| ≥0.7/<0.7 | |||||
| Albumin (g/dl) | 0.17 | ||||
| ≥3.7/<3.7 | |||||
| AFP (ng/ml) | 0.01 | 1.84 | 0.68–5.11 | 0.22 | |
| ≥14/<14 | |||||
| DCP (mAU/ml) | 0.59 | ||||
| ≥200/<200 | |||||
| ICGR15 (%) | 0.74 | ||||
| ≥15/<15 | |||||
| Tumor number | <0.01 | 2.17 | 0.74–5.98 | 0.14 | |
| Single/multiple | |||||
| Maximum tumor size (cm) | 0.27 | ||||
| ≥4/<4 | |||||
| Blood transfusion | 0.85 | ||||
| Yes/no | |||||
| Post-operative complications | 0.02 | 4.30 | 1.49–13.25 | <0.01 | |
| Yes/no | |||||
AST, aspartate aminotransferase; ALT, alanine aminotransferase; ICGR-15, indocyanine green retention rate at 15 min; AFP, α-fetoprotein; DCP, des-gamma-carboxy prothrombin; HCV, hepatitis C virus; HBV, hepatitis B virus; NBNC, negative for HBV and HCV; CI, confidence interval.