Table 3.
Patient characteristics and inflammatory data in patients who required mechanical ventilatory support. Data are presented as meadian (quartiles).
| Variables | NIV successful (N = 37) | NIV failure (N = 13) |
P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Early failure (N = 7) | Late failure (N = 6) | |||
| Age | 65(58–69) | 62(45–72) | 70(62–75) | 0.3 |
| Admitting leucocytic count | 9(6–12) | 6(5–11) | 6.8(4–12) | 0.32 |
| Admitting Lymphocytes | 0.8(0.5–1.2) | 0.6(0.5–1.4) | 0.5(0.4–0.8) | 0.36 |
| Admitting Ferritin | 966(690–1783) | 710(640–2300) | 1226(890–1890) | 0.6 |
| Admitting LDH | 652(488–833) | 630(496–1171) | 410(341–743) | 0.2 |
| Admitting CRP | 168(88–208) | 147(69–226) | 103(24–188) | 0.28 |
CRP: C-reactive protein, LDH: lactate dehydrogenase, NIV: non-invasive ventilation.