Table 3.
Comparison of secondary outcomes between HTx recipients with and without postoperative pneumonia
| Parameters | No POP (n = 116) |
POP (n = 59) |
OR (IC95%) | p |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duration of mechanical ventilation (days) | 1 [1,3] | 9 [4,23] | – | < 0,01 |
| VA-ECMO Duration (days) | 4 [1,10] | 10 [5,16] | – | 0,01 |
| ICU length of stay (days) | 16 [11,23] | 26 [15,41] | – | < 0,01 |
| Hospital length of stay (days) – | 29 [20,40] | 45 [28,63] | – | < 0,01 |
| Kidney replacement therapy, n (%) | 20 (17) | 38 (66) | 9,0 (4,3 – 16,6) | < 0,01 |
| One-year rejection, n (%) | 58 (50) | 30 (50) | 1.01 (0,5 – 1,9) | 1,00 |
| 30-day mortality, n (%) | 5 (4) | 9 (15) | 4,0 (1,3 – 12,4) | 0,02 |
| One-year mortality, n (%) | 6 (5) | 16 (27) | 6,8 (2,5–18,4) | < 0,01 |
Qualitative data are expressed in percentage and qualitative data are expressed on median with 1st and 3th quartile for recipients with or without post-operative pneumonia (POP)