Nutritional status (assessed by the GNRI, NRI, albumin, or prealbumin), age, dialysis vintage, hyperimmunized status, DGF, and hospitalization stay were statistically significantly related to the risk of postoperative infection in the univariate analysis; however, only hospitalization stay, hyperimmunized status and the GNRI remained at a significant value in the multivariate analysis. Here, ALB is linked to infection.