Table 1.
Clinical and demographic data at time of liver transplant listing and short-term clinical outcome of patients with and without central line-associated bloodstream infection
| No CLABSI | CLABSI | P value | |
| n (%) | 44 (70) | 19 (30) | |
| Male, n (%) | 11 (25) | 5 (26) | 0.91 |
| Race, n (%) | |||
| White | 38 (86) | 15 (79) | 0.71 |
| Black | 5 (11) | 3 (16) | |
| Asian | 1 (2) | 1 (5) | |
| Ethnicity, n (%) | |||
| Hispanic | 25 (57%) | 9 (47%) | 0.49 |
| Primary language non-English, n (%) | 12 (27) | 3 (16) | 0.32 |
| Insurance, n (%) | 0.036 | ||
| Public/none | 25 (57) | 16 (84) | |
| Private | 19 (43) | 3 (16) | |
| Kasai portoenterostomy timing, n (%) | 0.99 | ||
| ≤ 100 d | 28 (64) | 12 (63) | |
| > 100 d | 2 (5) | 1 (5) | |
| Not performed | 14 (32) | 6 (32) | |
| Age at listing, years, mean (SD) | 0.59 (0.27) | 0.61 (0.31) | 0.89 |
| Any home parenteral nutrition, n (%) | 16 (36) | 9 (47) | 0.41 |
| Anthropometrics | |||
| Length, cm, mean (SD) | 64.5 (3.8) | 64.3 (3.6) | 0.82 |
| Weight, kg, mean (SD) | 6.9 (1.3) | 6.6 (1.1) | 0.38 |
| Length z-score, mean (SD) | -1.26 (1.47) | -1.57 (1.24) | 0.43 |
| Weight z-score, mean (SD) | -0.96 (1.26) | -1.44 (0.98) | 0.15 |
| WFL z-score, mean (SD) | -0.21 (1.13) | -0.58 (0.91) | 0.21 |
| Laboratory | |||
| ALT, U/L, median (25th, 75th) | 133 (90, 204) | 128 (90, 233) | 0.98 |
| GGT, U/L, median (25th, 75th) | 257 (106, 504) | 364 (205, 800) | 0.14 |
| Albumin, g/dL, mean (SD) | 3.1 (0.46) | 3 (0.68) | 0.88 |
| Conjugated bilirubin, mg/dL, median (25th, 75th) | 4.2 (0.95, 8.2) | 3.7 (2, 5.7) | 0.73 |
| Total bilirubin, mg/dL, median (25th, 75th) | 10.7 (3.5, 16.2) | 11.3 (6.2, 12.7) | 0.90 |
| White blood cells, × 103/µL, median (25th, 75th) | 10.2 (8.3, 15.6) | 10.6 (7.4, 14.4) | 0.88 |
| Hemoglobin, g/dL, mean (SD) | 9.9 (1.6) | 10.2 (1.3) | 0.56 |
| Platelets, × 103/µL, median (25th, 75th) | 123 (95, 217) | 160 (102, 230) | 0.41 |
| INR, mean (SD) | 1.6 (0.6) | 2.3 (4.1) | 0.28 |
| BUN, mg/dL, mean (SD) | 9.5 (5) | 9.9 (4.6) | 0.73 |
| Prealbumin, mg/dL, mean (SD) | 9.5 (3.6) | 9.5 (4.3) | 0.95 |
| Clinical outcome | 0.29 | ||
| Transplanted | 35 (80) | 18 (95) | |
| Died on the waitlist or removed for too ill | 6 (14) | 1 (5) | |
| Removed from waitlist for too well | 3 (7) | 0 |
CLABSI: Central line-associated bloodstream infection; SD: Standard deviation; WFL: Weight-for-length; ALT: Alanine aminotransferase; GGT: Gamma glutamyl transferase; INR: International normalized ratio; BUN: Blood urea nitrogen.