Clinical Outcomes and Quality of Life in Recipients of Livers Donated after Cardiac Death
Table 1
Baseline characteristics of liver transplant recipients.
DCD ()
DBD ()
value
Age
55.2 ± 11.8
54.6 ± 10.3
Gender (% male)
71.7%
63.1%
Calculated MELD at LT
21.1 ± 9.9
25.3 ± 11.0
MELD upgrade at LT (%)
35.6%
40.0%
Etiology of liver disease
HCV
26.7%
25.5%
EtOH
20%
18.7%
HCV/EtOH
15%
11.7%
NASH/cryptogenic
15.0%
16.6%
Fulminant
6.7%
4.2%
HCC at LT
36.7%
29.1%
Liver-kidney transplant
5.0%
21.2%
Cold ischemia time (hrs)
5.6 ± 1.6
5.4 ± 1.8
Warm ischemia time (min)
16.3 ± 5.4
Ischemic cholangiopathy
23%
0.2%
Graft failure
40.0%
19.6%
Death
28.3%
16.4%
DCD: donation after cardiac death, DBD: donation after brain death, MELD: model of end stage liver disease, LT: liver transplantation, HCV: hepatitis C Virus, EtOH: ethanol, NASH: nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, and HCC: hepatocellular carcinoma.
