Table 1. Patient characteristics and CART details.

Items				Values
Age, years				65.7±12.2 [23–90]
Sex
	Male			61 (41.5%)
	Female			86 (58.5%)
Primary Diagnoses
	Malignancy			128 (85.9%)
		Primary site of malignancy
			Liver / Biliary tract		28 (18.8%)
			Pancreas		22 (14.8%)
			Stomach		13 (8.7%)
			Colon-rectum		9 (6.0%)
			Esophagus		2 (1.3%)
			Ovary		38 (25.5%)
			Uterus		5 (3.4%)
			Others		11 (7.4%)
	Liver cirrhosis			17 (11.4%)
	Other illness			4 (2.7%)
Complications
	With any complications			19 (12.9%)
		Details of complications (with redundancy)
			Heart failure		0
			Kidney dysfunction		15 (10.2%)
			Hepatic encephalopathy		4 (2.7%)
			Esophageal varix		7 (4.8%)
			Bacterial peritonitis		0
Details of CART procedures
	The number of sessions [session number per patient]			2.4 ± 2.7 [1–21]
	Session interval [days]			16.6 ± 25.4 [1–246]

CART: cell-free and concentrated ascites reinfusion therapy. Numbers in the brackets indicate the ranges.