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. 2017 Jul 13;21:181. doi: 10.1186/s13054-017-1764-4

Table 2.

Other adjunctive treatments used in patients treated with or without IVIgG

Before propensity score matching After propensity score matching
IVIgG(+)
(n = 960)
IVIgG(–)
(n = 2158)
p value IVIgG(+)
(n = 653)
IVIgG(–)
(n = 653)
p value
Adjunctive treatments of sepsis (%)
 Anti-DIC therapy
  Antithrombin 530 (55.2) 439 (20.3) <0.001 337 (51.6) 188 (28.8) <0.001
  Recombinant human soluble thrombomodulin 431 (50.7) 419 (19.4) <0.001 270 (41.3) 170 (26.0) <0.001
  Heparinoid 66 (6.9) 93 (4.3) 0.002 44 (6.7) 35 (5.4) 0.296
  Protease inhibitor 195 (20.3) 192 (8.9) <0.001 129 (19.8) 92 (14.1) 0.006
 Low-dose steroid 364 (37.9) 399 (18.5) <0.001 242 (37.1) 147 (22.5) <0.001
 Renal replacement therapy 377 (39.3) 501 (23.2) <0.001 234 (35.8) 165 (25.3) <0.001
 Renal replacement therapy for non-renal indications 135 (14.1) 129 (6.0) <0.001 88 (13.5) 63 (9.6) 0.031
 Polymyxin B direct hemoperfusion 327 (34.1) 357 (16.5) <0.001 207 (31.7) 142 (21.7) <0.001
 Plasma exchange 17 (1.8) 12 (0.6) 0.002 11 (1.7) 5 (0.8) 0.131
 Veno-arterial ECMO 7 (0.7) 21 (1.0) 0.330 6 (0.9) 4 (0.6) 0.525
 Veno-venous ECMO 14 (1.5) 26 (1.2) 0.335 7 (1.1) 5 (0.8) 0.562
 Intra-aortic balloon pumping 5 (0.5) 8 (0.4) 0.369 3 (0.5) 0 (0.0) 0.083
Transfusion (units)
 RBC concentration 2 (0–6) 0 (0–4) <0.001 2 (0–6) 0 (0–4) <0.001
 FFP 0 (0–10) 0 (0–0) <0.001 0 (0–10) 0 (0–4) <0.001
 Platelet concentration 0 (0–20) 0 (0–0) <0.001 0 (0–10) 0 (0–0) 0.002

DIC disseminated intravascular coagulation, FFP fresh frozen plasma, ECMO extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, RBC red blood cell