Plasma levels of surfactant protein D and KL-6 for evaluation of lung injury in critically ill mechanically ventilated patients

Table 1 Baseline characteristics

	ALI/ARDS Lung-protective (n = 8)	ALI/ARDS Conventional (n = 8)	P-value	no lung injury Lung-protective (n = 10)	no lung injury Conventional (n = 10)	P-value
Age (yrs)	58 ± 18	58 ± 22	0.97	57 ± 19	58 ± 19	0.82
Male sex, No. (%)	4 (50%)	4 (50%)	0.80	7 (70%)	7 (70%)	1.00
APACHE II score	14.8 ± 2.4	14.1 ± 2.0	0.58	13.8 ± 2.3	15.2 ± 1.5	0.78
LIS	2.2 ± 0.4	2.3 ± 0.5	0.74	0.7 ± 0.7	0.7 ± 0.7	0.92
Admission diagnosis			0.43			0.41
Resuscitation				7	4
Neurological disease				2	2
Cardiopulmonary surgery					2
Sepsis	4	3			1
Trauma	1	3		1	1
Pneumonia	3	2

ALI acute lung injury; ARDS acute respiratory distress syndrome; APACHE acute physiology and chronic health evaluation; LIS lung injury score. Values are displayed as means with standard deviation.

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