Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 2 Comparison of values between patients in the treatment success group and patients in the treatment failure group

From: Which serum markers predict the success of reimplantation after periprosthetic joint infection?

	Successful (N = 108)	Failed (N = 11)	p value	Reference range
CRP (mg/L)	4.1 (2.7 to 6.9)	17.6 (4.5 to 64.1)	< 0.001^a	< 10
ESR (mm/h)	14 (8 to 21)	30 (18 to 58)	0.001^a	30
D-dimer (ng/mL)	1280 (895 to 2078)^b	2060 (1160 to 3445)	0.019^a	< 500
Fibrinogen (mg/dL)	297.3 (252.8 to 345.4)^b	426.4 (328.0 to 571.5)	< 0.001^a	200–400

^ameans the data has statistical difference; ^bin the successful group there were 7 patients had no test result. The values are given as the median with the interquartile range in parentheses

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