The elevated admission white blood cell count relates to adverse surgical outcome of acute Stanford type a aortic dissection

Table 6 Multivariate analysis

In-hospital M	HRs	95%CI	P value	Adverse event	HRs	95%CI	P value
Model 1
Quartile 1	1.000			Quartile 1	1.000
Quartile 2	3.524	0.847–14.665	0.083	Quartile 2	1.577	0.758–3.282	0.223
Quartile 3	8.864	2.201–35.693	0.002	Quartile 3	1.764	0.843–3.692	0.132
Quartile 4	7.579	1.832–31.351	0.005	Quartile 4	2.257	1.048–4.864	0.038
CPB	1.018	1.010–1.026	< 0.001	CPB	1.010	1.004–1.016	0.001
Cross-clamping	1.006	0.992–0.979	0.272	Cross-clamping	0.995	0.986–1.006	0.376
Renal dysfunction	6.955	2.126–22.756	0.001	Renal dysfunction	4.029	1.365–11.889	0.012
				BMI	1.090	1.017–1.169	0.015
Model 2
Elevated WBCc	3.104	1.382–6.972	0.006	Elevated WBCc	1.801	1.068–3.037	0.027
CPB	1.018	1.010–1.026	< 0.001	CPB	1.011	1.005–1.017	< 0.001
Cross-clamping	0.993	0.980–1.007	0.333	Cross-clamping	0.995	0.985–1.005	0.371
Renal dysfunction	6.718	2.132–21.169	0.001	Renal dysfunction	4.011	1.373–11.719	0.011
				BMI	1.089	1.016–1.168	0.016

BMI body mass index, CI confidence interval, CPB cardiopulmonary bypass, HR hazard ratio, In-hospital M in-hospital mortality, WBCc white blood cell count. Note: P-value< 0.05 is highlighted in bold type

ISSN: 1749-8090