Table 1.
Baseline characteristics of patients with liver trauma
| Patient number | Grades I–II (n = 127) |
Grades III–V (n = 49) |
P value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age, years | 36 | [5–85] | 46 | [9–93] | 0.092 |
| Male sex | 69 | (54.3) | 31 | (63.2) | 0.210 |
| Trauma mechanisms | 0.235 | ||||
| Traffic injury | 88 | (69.3) | 36 | (73.5) | |
| Falls | 16 | (14.2) | 6 | (12.2) | |
| Abdominal compression | 4 | (3.5) | 4 | (8.2) | |
| Other | 19 | (15.9) | 3 | (6.1) | |
| ISS | 21 | [4–75] | 25 | [9–75] | 0.176 |
| IABO | 8 | (6.3) | 13 | (26.5) | < 0.001 |
| TAE | 1 | (0.8) | 19 | (38.8) | < 0.001 |
| Liver injury grade | N/A | ||||
| I | 42 | (33.1) | 0 | ||
| II | 85 | (66.9) | 0 | ||
| III | 0 | 34 | (69.4) | ||
| IV | 0 | 11 | (22.4) | ||
| V | 0 | 4 | (8.2) | ||
| Initial treatment | < 0.001 | ||||
| Operative management | 13 | (10.2) | 23 | (46.9) | |
| Nonoperative management | 114 | (89.8) | 26 | (53.0) | |
| Result of injury | |||||
| Bile leakage | 0 | (0) | 8 | (16.3) | < 0.001 |
| Hepatic artery pseudoaneurysm | 3 | (2.4) | 7 | (14.3) | 0.005 |
Data are presented as the number of patients (%) or median value of the parameter (range). ISS: Injury Severity Score; IABO: intra-aortic balloon occlusion; TAE: transcatheter arterial embolization