Table 1. Patients’ Baseline Characteristics.

From: Impact of Preoperative Immunonutritional Support in Patients Undergoing Elective Thoracic Surgery

Items No. (%) or Median (Range)
Gender Male 20 (52.5)
Female 19 (47.5)
Age 72 (21-89)
ECOG-PS 0 35 (89.7)
1 4 (10.3)
Body balance Body height (cm) 158 (140-176)
Body weight (kg) 56.6 (37.0-86.0)
Preoperative diagnosis Lung cancer 26 (67.5)
Metastatic lung tumors 9 (22.5)
Others 4 (10.0)
Smoking status Non 19 (48.7)
Current 3 (7.7)
Former 17 (43.6)
Comorbidities Hypertension 13 (33.3)
Type 2 diabetes mellitus 8 (20.5)
Other malignancies 8 (20.5)
Cerebral infarction 6 (15.4)
Table 2. Changes in Body Weight and Hematological Data after Immunonutritional Support.

From: Impact of Preoperative Immunonutritional Support in Patients Undergoing Elective Thoracic Surgery

Items Baseline After support Mean difference (95% CI)
Body weight (kg) 58.9 ± 1.9 59.4 ± 1.9 0.4 (−0.2 to 1.0)
Complete blood cell counts
White blood cell count (/μL) 5.582 ± 291 5,726 ± 257 143.6 (−216.4 to 503.6)
Neutrophils (/μL) 3,724 ± 233 3,776 ± 221 51.8 (−281.3 to 384.8)
Lymphocytes (/μL) 1,282 ± 57 1,384 ± 76 102.0 (−15.4 to 219.5)
Monocytes (/μL) 324 ± 20 355 ± 21 31.5 (−1.1 to 64.1)
Eosinophils (/μL) 231 ± 60 172 ± 28 −59.2 (−169.1 to 50.8)
Basophils (/μL) 36 ± 3 37 ± 4 1.7 (−3.4 to 6.9)
Hemoglobin (g/dL) 12.6 ± 0.3 12.7 ± 0.3 0.1 (−0.2 to 0.3)
Hematocrit (%) 38.0 ± 0.8 38.1 ± 0.8 0.0 (−0.5 to 0.6)
RDW (%) 14.3 ± 0.5 14.1 ± 0.3 −0.2 (−0.7 to 0.3)
Platelet (× 103/μL) 218 ± 12 217 ± 11 −0.5 (−11.5 to 10.4)
Serum chemistry
Albumin (g/dL) 4.1 ± 0.1 4.2 ± 0.1 0.1 (0.0 to 0.2)
Total cholesterol (mg/dL) 196 ± 10 191 ± 5 −5.0 (−12.7 to 2.7)
Triglyceride (mg/dL) 140 ± 17 109 ± 7 38.4 (−0.4 to 77.3)
Blood sugar (mg/dL) 115 ± 8 105 ± 5 18.0 (1.8 to 34.2)
ALP (U/L) 244 ± 15 241 ± 13 −0.8 (−14.3 to 12.7)
LDH (U/L) 197 ± 6 209 ± 6 −10.8 (−17.8 to −3.8)
AST (U/L) 24 ± 2 25 ± 2 −0.9 (−2.7 to 0.8)
ALT (U/L) 23 ± 4 25 ± 4 −2.2 (−5.0 to 0.7)
G-GTP (U/L) 36 ± 6 40 ± 6 −5.4 (−10.5 to −0.4)
BUN (mg/dL) 17 ± 1 23 ± 2 −6.4 (−9.1 to −3.6)
Cr (mg/dL) 0.84 ± 0.05 0.82 ± 0.05 0.0 (−0.0 to 0.1)
CRP (mg/dL) 0.34 ± 0.14 0.26 ± 0.09 0.1 (−0.1 to 0.3)
Table 3. Improvement Rates in Immunonutritional Parameters after Immunonutritional Support.

From: Impact of Preoperative Immunonutritional Support in Patients Undergoing Elective Thoracic Surgery

Items Baseline After support Mean difference (95% CI)
Body mass index 23.0 ± 0.5 22.5 ± 0.8 −0.2 (−0.4 to 0.1)
Geriatric nutritional risk index 104.1 ± 1.2 104.5 ± 1.9 1.8 (0.3 to 3.2)
Prognostic nutritional index 40.8 ± 0.7 41.7 ± 0.7 1.5 (0.2 to 2.7)
Table 4. Patients’ Baseline Characteristics in Both Groups after Propensity Score Matching.

From: Impact of Preoperative Immunonutritional Support in Patients Undergoing Elective Thoracic Surgery

Items Control group (n = 34) Immunonutritional support group (n = 34) P value
Gender 0.3306
Male 14 18
Female 20 16
Age, median (range) 74 (49-87) 74 (46-89) 0.7540
ECOG-PS 0.7337
0 28 30
1 6 4
Smoking status 0.7854
Non 18 16
Former 15 16
Current 1 2
Preoperative comorbidities 0.7794
No 8 9
Yes 26 25
Preoperative diagnosis 0.9525
Lung cancer 25 24
Metastatic lung tumors 6 7
Others 3 3
Immunonutritional supplements -
IMPACT - 19
MEIN - 12
Abound - 3
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