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Table 1 Characteristics of patients with typical and atypical A-P shunts

From: Clinical characteristics of hepatic Arterioportal shunts associated with hepatocellular carcinoma

Characteristics

Number of patients or Mean/Median

Atypical A-P Shunt

Typical A-P Shunt

p

Sex, n (%)

   

0.945

 Male

124 (90.51)

35 (92.11)

89 (89.90)

 

 Female

13 (9.49)

3 (7.89)

10 (10.10)

 

Age, mean ± sd

54.91 ± 9.47

56.45 ± 8.0

54.32 ± 9.94

0.241

Etiology, n (%)

   

0.837

 HBV

127 (92.70)

35 (92.11)

92 (92.93)

 

 HCV

2 (1.46)

1 (2.63)

1 (1.01)

 

 Others

8 (5.84)

2 (5.26)

6 (6.06)

 

Number of tumors, n (%)

   

0.055

 Multiple

86 (62.77)

19 (50.00)

67 (67.68)

 

 Single

51 (37.23)

19 (50.00)

32 (32.32)

 

Child-Pugh score, n (%)

   

0.898

 A

102 (74.45)

28 (73.68)

74 (74.75)

 

 B

35 (25.55)

10 (26.32)

25 (25.25)

 

AFP(ng/ml), median (quartile)

309.0(13.85, 1210.0)

57.0 (7.2,1210.0)

579 (15.7,1210.0)

0.035

Albumin(g/L), mean ± sd

40.11 ± 5.34

39.59 ± 5.71

40.32 ± 5.21

0.827

Bilirubin (mmol/L), median (quartile)

22.0 (15.5,29.6)

20.95 (14.3,28.5)

22.2 (15.5,30)

0.644

Creatinine (umol/L),median (quartile)

62.0 (54.2, 71.0)

60.65 (53.7,68)

63.1 (54.2,73.1)

0.701

AST(U/L),median(quartile)

41.0 (28.0, 65.0)

32.05 (26.4,58.5)

43.3 (30.0,67.0)

0.025

ALT(U/L),median(quartile)

49.0 (36.0, 74.9)

39.5 (29.3, 74.0)

53 (37.8, 77.0)

0.106

Platelets (109/L) median(quartile)

125 (88, 282)

109 (91, 161)

128 (87, 182)

0.341

Tumor size (cm), median (quartile)

6.5 (3.8, 9.5)

5 (3.3, 7.0)

7.1 (4.5, 10.5)

0.007