Fig. 4
The serum levels of adhesion molecules and E-selectin, Serpine-1 between non-bloody effusions and bloody effusions goups. We used ELLISA method to test the above molecules. The results showed a) The level of sVCAM-1 was significantly higher in bloody effusion patients than in non-bloody effusion patients (23,191 ng/mL vs. 12,545 ng/ml, Padj = 0.012); while there were no significant differences in sICAM-1 and VE-cadherin between the two groups; b) The level of E-selectin was dramatically higher in bloody effusion group than in non-bloody group (4014 ng/mL vs. 2951 ng/ml, Padj = 0.024). And no difference was found in serpine-1 between the two groups. Padj value was calculated using logistic regression adjusted for APACHE II and SOFA scores. *P < 0.05