Table 1 Patient characteristics.

From: Novel tissue biomarker candidates to predict both deep venous thrombosis and healing outcome after Achilles tendon rupture

  

No-DVT

DVT

p-value

Tendon biopsies

 

n = 27

n = 12

 

Male-sex

n (%)

20 (74)

11 (92)

0.394§

Age

M (SD)

40 (8.1)

45 (9.0)

0.091

BMI

M (SD)

26 (3.2)

25 (2.7)

0.988

No nicotine use

n (%)

22 (81)

10 (83)

1.000§

TTS (h)

M (SD)

74 (30)

86 (23)

0.270

DS (min)

Median (IQR)

39 (27–49)

37 (32–54)

0.709

Postoperative treatment

   

0.714

Calf-IPC

n (%)

3 (11)

2 (17)

 

VacoPed

n (%)

15 (56)

5 (42)

 

Plaster cast

n (%)

9 (33)

5 (42)

 

Microdialysates

 

n = 17

n = 11

 

Male-sex

n (%)

12 (71)

9 (82)

0.668

Age

M (SD)

37 (7.1)

42 (9.7)

0.132

BMI

M (SD)

26 (3.2)

27 (3.4)

0.764

No nicotine use

n (%)

14 (82)

11 (100)

0.258§

TTS (h)

M (SD)

78 (33)

71 (30)

0.597

DS (min)

M (SD)

34 (16)

29 (3)

0.363

Postoperative treatment

   

0.570

Calf-IPC

n (%)

1 (5.9)

2 (18)

 

VacoPed

n (%)

8 (47)

5 (45)

 

Plaster cast

n (%)

8 (47)

4 (36)

 

TSM (days)

M (SD)

15 (2.1)

15 (1.5)

0.544

  1. P-values from Mann-Whitney u-test / Student’s t-test or Fishers exact test§. Abbreviations: BMI = Body mass index, TTS = Time from injury to surgery, TSM = Time from surgery to microdialysis, DS = Duration of surgery, DVT = Deep venous thrombosis, IQR = Interquartile range. For TTS tendon biopsies (n = 22 no-DVT and n = 11 DVT) and microdialysates (n = 13 no-DVT and n = 8 DVT) and DS tendon biopsies (n = 24 no-DVT and n = 11 DVT) and microdialysates (n = 13 no-DVT and n = 8 DVT).