Skip to main content

Table 4 Clinical symptoms, body temperature, and laboratory characteristics postoperative in infection group and non-infection group

From: Clinical features and risk factors of surgical site infections in HIV-negative patients with cryptococcal meningitis underwent ventriculoperitoneal shunt operations: a retrospective study

Variable

SSIs

P value

No ( n = 168)

Yes (n = 25)

Body temperature (°C)c

37.20 ± 0.90

37.70 ± 1.15

0.006*

ICH symptomsb

123 (79.35%)

21 (87.50%)

0.509

Intracranial pressure (mmH2O)c

165.99 ± 42.50

187.41 ± 56.93

0.425

Postoperative WBC of blood (× 109/L)c

9.34 ± 5.90

9.59 ± 6.56

0.944

Postoperative hemoglobin (g/L)a

111.22 ± 17.95

101.12 ± 22.46

0.030*

Postoperative CRP (mg/L)c

36.50 ± 48.23

36.54 ± 97.69

0.741

Postoperative PCT (ng/mL)c

0.13 ± 0.18

0.39 ± 0.39

0.035*

Postoperative WBC of CSF (× 106/L)c

60.00 ± 98.00

68.00 ± 97.75

0.980

Postoperative protein of CSF (g/L)c

1.68 ± 1.51

1.92 ± 1.63

0.079

Postoperative glucose of CSF (mmol/L)c

1.57 ± 1.92

0.91 ± 1.74

0.043*

  1. Data was shown as frequency (relative frequency) mean ± standard deviation or median (quartile range)
  2. SSIs surgical site infections, ICH intracranial hypertension, WBC white blood cell, CRP C-reactive protein, PCT procalcitonin, CSF cerebrospinal fluid
  3. *Means that the variables were statistically significant with significance level of 0.05
  4. aTwo-samples T test; bChi-squared test or Fisher’s exact test; cMann–Whitney U test