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Table 1 Comparison of characteristics between patients with and without AKI, CA-AKI and HA-AKI

From: Characteristics of acute kidney injury and its impact on outcome in patients with acute-on-chronic liver failure

Variables

Non-AKI

N = 357

AKI

N = 217

P value

AKI

CA-AKI

N = 56

HA-AKI

N = 161

P value

Age (years)

49.6 ± 11.9

53.6 ± 12.1

 < 0.001

54.1 ± 11.8

53.5 ± 12.2

0.728

Male-n (%)

265 (74.2)

169 (77.9)

0.323

45 (80.4)

124 (77.0)

0.604

Death-n(%)

77 (21.6)

120 (55.3)

 < 0.001

33 (58.9)

87 (54.0)

0.0526

Hypertension-n(%)

42 (11.8)

41 (18.9)

0.019

10 (17.9)

31 (19.3)

0.818

Diabetes mellitus-n(%)

56 (9.8)

43 (19.8)

0.204

10 (17.9)

33 (20.5)

0.669

Baseline Cr (μmol/L)

60.5 ± 18.4

84.9 ± 49.1

 < 0.001

128.2 ± 70.8

69.9 ± 25.5

 < 0.001

Baseline eGFR (ml/min/1.73m2)*

134.6 ± 43.1

109.5 ± 61.1

 < 0.001

73.4 ± 45.6

122.0 ± 60.9

 < 0.001

Peak Cr (μmol/L)

–

214.2 ± 139.9

 

276.4 ± 158.8

192.6 ± 126.1

 < 0.001

Etiology of liver disease-n (%)

  

0.013

  

0.793

Hepatitis B

195 (54.6)

102 (47.0)

 

25 (44.6)

77 (47.8)

 

Alcohol

92 (25.8)

81 (37.3)

 

23 (41.1)

58 (36.0)

 

Other causes

70 (19.6)

34 (15.7)

 

8 (14.3)

26 (16.1)

 

Complications at admission-n (%)

Ascites

182 (51.0)

118 (54.4)

0.429

30 (53.6)

88 (54.7)

0.888

HE

32 (9.0)

22 (10.1)

0.640

7 (12.5)

15 (9.3)

0.497

GI bleeding

51 (14.3)

63 (29.0)

 < 0.001

19 (33.9)

44 (27.3)

0.349

Bacterial infection

46 (12.9)

54 (24.9)

 < 0.001

11 (19.6)

43 (26.7)

0.292

Admission parameters

MAP (mmHg)

90 ± 11.5

88.7 ± 14.9

0.117

82.8 ± 15.0

90.7 ± 14.4

 < 0.001

Heart rate (bpm)

82.6 ± 14

87.2 ± 14.9

 < 0.001

91.2 ± 18

85.8 ± 13.5

0.010

WBC (× 109/L)

7.0 ± 4.4

9.8 ± 6.5

 < 0.001

12.2 ± 7.2

9.0 ± 6.1

 < 0.001

PLT (× 109/L)

99.3 ± 62.3

104.3 ± 69.6

0.186

111.4 ± 77.5

101.9 ± 66.7

0.190

ALB (g/L)

29.4 ± 5.1

27.3 ± 5.1

 < 0.001

26.6 ± 4.5

27.5 ± 5.3

0.140

TBIL (μmol/L)

233.1 ± 129.3

263.1 ± 156.7

0.009

261.3 ± 154.4

263.7 ± 157.9

0.462

INR

2.3 ± 0.9

2.4 ± 1.1

0.034

2.6 ± 1.4

2.4 ± 1.0

0.077

PT (s)

33.8 ± 10.9

35.7 ± 13.3

0.033

36.1 ± 13.2

35.5 ± 13.3

0.391

BUN (mmol/L)

5.3 ± 3.1

10.4 ± 7.3

 < 0.001

17.7 ± 7.9

7.9 ± 5.1

 < 0.001

sCr (μmol/L)

60.6 ± 18.4

110.8 ± 80.7

 < 0.001

213.1 ± 91.7

75.2 ± 31.1

 < 0.001

Serum Na+ (mmol/L)

134.3 ± 5.8

132.3 ± 6.1

 < 0.001

130.9 ± 7.2

132.8 ± 5.6

0.021

Serum K+ (mmol/L)

3.8 ± 0.6

4.0 ± 0.7

0.004

4.1 ± 0.9

3.9 ± 0.6

0.029

eGFR (ml/min/1.73m2)*

134.6 ± 43.1

105.2 ± 62.9

 < 0.001

62.2 ± 45.7

120.2 ± 61.2

 < 0.001

CTP

11.1 ± 1.7

11.5 ± 1.8

0.006

11.8 ± 1.7

11.4 ± 1.8

0.118

MELD

18.2 ± 5.7

22.6 ± 8.5

 < 0.001

30.4 ± 7.1

20.0 ± 7.2

 < 0.001

MELD-Na

22.5 ± 8.5

29.3 ± 10.9

 < 0.001

38.9 ± 9.8

26.0 ± 9.2

 < 0.001

Initial ICA-AKI stage-n

Stage 1/2/3

 

132/58/27

 

30/14/12

102/44/15

0.060

Peak ICA-AKI stage-n

Stage 1/2/3

 

84/60/73

 

25/9/22

59/51/51

0.080

  1. ALB albumin, BUN blood urea nitrogen, CTP child-turcotte-pugh, eGFR estimated glomerular filtration rate, HE hepatic encephalopathy, INR international normalized ratio, MAP mean arterial pressure, MELD model for end-stage liver disease, PLT platelet, sCr serum creatinine, TBIL total bilirubin, WBC white blood cells
  2. *Estimated by MDRD
  3. Bold represented P < 0.05 with statistically significant