Table 4.
Risk factors for peri-interventional pneumothorax and bronchial bleeding in transbronchial lung cryobiopsy.
| Pneumothorax | Bronchial bleeding | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| None | Mild/moderate | p-value a | None | Moderate/severe | p-value a | |
| All, n (%) | 60 (80.0) | 15 (20.0) | 53 (70.7) | 22 (29.3) | ||
| Age, years | ||||||
| ⩾75 | 8 | 3 | 0.683 | 7 | 4 | 0.721 |
| <75 | 52 | 12 | 46 | 18 | ||
| TLC, % | ||||||
| <80 | 13 | 9 | 0.009 | 15 | 15 | 0.785 |
| >80 | 47 | 6 | 38 | 7 | ||
| DLCO, % | ||||||
| <80 | 44 | 12 | 0.747 | 36 | 20 | 0.044 |
| >80 | 16 | 3 | 17 | 2 | ||
DLCO, diffusion limitation for carbon monoxide; TLC, total lung capacity.
a
Fisher’s exact test was applied.