Disease dependent qualitative and quantitative differences in the inflammatory response to ascites occurring in cirrhotics

Table 4 Mean values of the various factors in the ascitic fluid aligned from the highest to the lowest

	Highest values → Lowest values
IL-1A	Cardiac	HCV	ETOH	Malignancy
	0.700	0.200	0.168	0.153
IL-1B	ETOH	Cardiac	Malignancy	HCV
	7.479	5.000	4.900	4.300
IL-2	Malignancy	ETOH	HCV	Cardiac
	1.990	1.368	0.667	0.650
IL-4	HCV	Cardiac	ETOH	Malignancy
	15.833	10.555	9.268	6.533
IL-6	HCV	Cardiac	Malignancy	ETOH
	807.764	790.050	707.525	687.177
IL-8	Cardiac	ETOH	HCV	Malignancy
	718.250	338.015	329.567	229.200
IL-10	Cardiac	ETOH	HCV	Malignancy
	76.500	74.686	15.200	9.043
MCP-1	ETOH	Malignancy	HCV	Cardiac
	919.608	576.728	537.600	421.900
IFN-γ	ETOH	Malignancy	HCV	Cardiac
	2.114	1.488	0.467	0.200
TNF-α	Cardiac	HCV	ETOH	Malignancy
	70.950	30.433	22.818	9.672
EGF	Cardiac	Malignancy	ETOH	HCV
	4.900	2.407	1.318	0.967
VEGF	Malignancy	HCV	Cardiac	ETOH
	689.120	129.733	119.456	54.383

HCV: Hepatitis C virus; IL: Interleukin; MCP-1: Monocyte chemotactic protein-1; IFN-γ: Interferon-γ; TNF-α: Tumor necrosis factor-α; EGF: Epidermal growth factor; VEGF: Vascular endothelial growth factor.