90 days impacts of remote ischemic preconditioning on patients undergoing open total aortic arch replacement: a post-hoc analysis of previous trial

Table 1 The key endpoint: major adverse kidney events of 90-day in all patients

	n	RIPC	Sham	P value
MAKE, n (%)	65/65	7 (10.8)	15 (23.1)	0.061
Persistent renal dysfunction ^b, n (%)	63/60	3 (4.8)	5 (8.3)	0.662^a
Dialysis dependence^b, n (%)	63/60	2 (3.2)	5 (8.3)	0.398^a
Mortality, n (%)	65/65	2 (3.1)	5 (7.7)	0.437^a

MAKE major adverse kidney events, RIPC remote ischemic preconditioning
^aFisher exact test was used due to expected counts less than 5 in the cross-table
^bExcluding patients who died

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