Table 2 Comprehensive multivariate risk factor analysis
From: Pneumatosis intestinalis and porto-mesenteric venous gas: a multicenter study
| Risk factor / parameters | Cox-Regression | MultivariateRegression | MultivariateRegression | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entire population(n = 290) | p-value | Benign subgroup(n = 72) | p-value | Deceased subgroup(n = 63) | p-value | |
| Qualitative parameters: | ||||||
| Sex | 0.626 | 0.218 | 0.464 | |||
| Female | 119 | 26 | 23 | |||
| Male | 171 | 46 | 40 | |||
| PMVG (present): | 122 | 0.161 | 19 | 0.042 | 33 | 0.486 |
| Sepsis (present): | 78 | 0.005 | 10 | 0.033 | 0.108 | |
| Vascular disorders: (present) | 100 | 17 | ||||
| 50–75% | 28 | 0.775 | 8 | 0.559 | 5 | 0.384 |
| 76–99% | 34 | 0.010 | 4 | 0.467 | 8 | 0.447 |
| Occlusion | 28 | 0.137 | 5 | 0.369 | 10 | 0.959 |
| Oncologic disease (present) | 110 | 0.767 | 34 | 0.268 | 23 | 0.464 |
| Cardiovasc. disease (present) | 200 | 0.685 | 40 | 0.253 | 42 | 0.772 |
| COPD (present) | 0.002 | 7 | 0.017 | 0.715 | ||
| Bowel-obstruction: (present) | 109 | 0.766 | 23 | 0.262 | 26 | 0.689 |
| Steroids therapy(present) | 28 | 0.314 | 7 | 0.182 | 3 | 0.182 |
| Length | ||||||
| 10-90 cm | 236 | 0.097–0.904 | 62 | 0.039 | 45 | 0.039 |
| > 100 cm | 54 | 0.007 | 10 | 0.039 | 18 | 0.039 |
| Quantitative parameters | ||||||
| Age | 66.7 ± 14.8 | 0.041 | 66.0 ± 14.7 | 0.647 | 64.6 ± 16.1 | 0.654 |
| CRP (mg/l) | 129.4 ± 125.6 | 0.008 | 80.3 ± 96.5 | 0.006 | 136.9 ± 118.9 | 0.555 |
| PCT (μg/l) | 8.2 ± 6.1 | 0.053 | 2.7 ± 4.7 | 0.146 | 11.7 ± 15.0 | 0.339 |
| Lactate | 32.6 ± 39.9 | 0.042 | 26.5 ± 38.0 | 0.689 | 46 ± 63.9 | 0.540 |
| Platelets | 218.1 ± 141.6 | < 0.001 | 231.7 ± 116.2 | 0.635 | 122.8 ± 115.0 | < 0.001 |