Table 1 Demographic and laboratory characteristics of patients.
Characteristics | Healthy (n = 46) | Cardiac surgery (n = 145) | Bloodstream infections (n = 60) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
H2 (n = 22) | H24 (n = 80) | H48 (n = 43) | |||
C-Reactive Protein mg/l (Mean ± SEM) | < 5 | 3.4 ± 0.9 | 69 ± 3.8 | 242 ± 6.5 | 218 ± 15 |
Neutrophil count/µl (Mean ± SEM) | 3368 ± 113 | 8687 ± 633 | 9944 ± 334 | 8706 ± 387 | 13,543 ± 891 |
Lymphocyte count/µl (Mean ± SEM) | 2016 ± 72 | 1792 ± 155 | 922 ± 48 | 1296 ± 69 | 999 ± 84 |
Monocyte count/µl (Mean ± SEM) | 561 ± 23 | 682 ± 67 | 1071 ± 46 | 1173 ± 57 | 1040 ± 88 |
Age (median years) | 43 | 69 | 66 | ||
Gender M/F (%) | 58/42 | 72/28 | 62/38 | ||
Hospitalization length (median days) | – | 12 | 31 | ||
Decease after admission (median days) | – | – | 61 | ||
Hospitalized mortality | – | 5.3% | 30.5% | ||
Site of infection | |||||
Catheter | 3% | ||||
Surgical site | 7% | ||||
Endocarditis | 10% | ||||
Abdominal | 15% | ||||
Lung | 18% | ||||
Other | 22% | ||||
Urinary tract | 25% | ||||
Cause of hospital admission | |||||
Carcinoma | 3% | ||||
General deterioration | 3% | ||||
Cerebrovascular accident | 7% | ||||
Digestive tract hemorrhage | 7% | ||||
Trauma | 7% | ||||
Hematological malignancy | 7% | ||||
Respiratory failure | 7% | ||||
Heart failure | 8% | ||||
Renal insufficiency | 8% | ||||
Postsurgery monitoring | 10% | ||||
Localized infection—Sepsis—Septic Shock | 33% | ||||
