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. 2019 Dec 5;23:393. doi: 10.1186/s13054-019-2681-5

Table 4.

Clinical features of patients receiving AIT on admission or delayed AIT

Missing data Patients receiving AIT from day 0 n = 340 Patients receiving AIT between day > 0 and day 30 n = 226 p value
Male, n (%) 0/4 227 (68) 147 (65) NS
Age, years, median [IQR] 1/1 59 [49–73] 58 [47–70] NS
Clinical presentation on day 0
 Delay pain/ICU admission, days, median [IQR] 0 4 [1–11] 2 [1–5] < 0.001
 Oliguria/anuria, n (%) 0 151 (44) 99 (44) NS
 BISAP score, median [IQR] 4/14 2 [1–2] 1 [0–2] < 0.001
 Balthazar score grade E, n (%) 0 196 (58) 155 (69) < 0.05
Severity criteria on day 0
 SOFA score, median [IQR] 1/11 5 [3–7] 4 [3–6] < 0.05
 Respiratory failure*, n (%) 0 129 (38) 68 (30) NS
 Cardiovascular failure*, n (%) 0 157 (46) 40 (18) < 0.001
 Renal failure*, n (%) 0 65 (19) 51 (23) NS
 Septic shock, n (%) 0 106 (31) 4 (2) < 0.001
 Acute respiratory distress syndrome, n (%) 0 36 (11) 16 (7) NS
Therapeutic management on day 0
 Vasoactive support, n (%) 0/1 160 (47) 42 (19) < 0.001
 Mechanical ventilation, n (%) 0/4 126 (38) 57 (25) < 0.01
 Fluid loading, n (%) 1/9 270 (82) 169 (75) NS
 Renal replacement therapy, n (%) 1/7 40 (12) 20 (9) NS
Main treatments between day > 0 and day 30
 Need for red blood cells transfusion, n (%) 0 113 (33) 78 (35) NS
 Duration of mechanical ventilation, days, median [IQR] 2/8 3 [0–11] 9 [0–21] < 0.001
 Vasoactive support, n (%) 0/1 205 (60) 126 (56) NS
 Renal replacement therapy, n (%) 1/0 91 (27) 85 (38) < 0.01
 Duration of RRT, days, median [IQR] 5/6 5 [2–15] 10 [3–16] NS
 Duration of AIT, days, median [IQR] 13/11 5 [2–12] 7 [3–14] < 0.01
Main complications between day > 0 and day 30
 Acute respiratory distress syndrome, n (%) 0/2 100 (30) 101 (45) < 0.001
 Septic shock, n (%) 16/30 123 (40) 85 (40) NS
 Pancreatic necrosis, n (%) 2/16 211 (65) 174 (78) < 0.01
 Infected necrosis, n (%) 6/22 113 (36) 83 (38) NS
 Gastro-intestinal perforation, n (%) 9/21 28 (9) 22 (10) NS
 Vascular thrombosis, n (%) 5/20 50 (16) 33 (15) NS
 Acute mesenteric ischaemia, n (%) 7/20 35 (11) 27 (12) NS
 Intra-abdominal collection, n (%) 5/16 147 (45) 89 (40) NS
 Abdominal compartment syndrome, n (%) 4/21 30 (9) 35 (16) < 0.05
 Haemorrhage, n (%) 6/20 46 (14) 33 (15) NS
 Peritonitis, n (%) 8/22 58 (18) 25 (11) < 0.05
 Cholangitis, n (%) 7/18 41 (13) 16 (7) < 0.05
 Digestive fistula, n (%) 8/20 21 (7) 9 (4) NS
Clinical management between day > 0 and day 30
 Endoscopic necrosectomy, n (%) 2/4 83 (25) 64 (29) NS
 Surgical necrosectomy, n (%) 2/4 131 (39) 86 (38) NS
 Radiological drainage, n (%) 2/4 72 (21) 47 (21) NS
 Duration of ICU stay, days, median [IQR] 0 8 [3–22] 17 [7–34] < 0.001
 ICU readmission, n (%) 0/1 27 (8) 23 (10) NS
 Hospital mortality rate, n (%) 0 91 (27) 50 (22) NS
 Time to death, days, median [IQR] 0 8 [1–31] 17 [5–38] < 0.05

NS non-significant, ERCP endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography

*According to the definition of the SOFA score