Risk Factors Associated with Reoperation for Bleeding following Liver Transplantation

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(a) Risk of reoperation as a function of platelets transfused. The risk of reoperation was highest in the group of liver transplant recipients that did not receive platelet transfusion during the transplant operation (13.7% risk estimate). Conversely, the lowest risk of reoperation for bleeding was observed in the group of patients that received the highest number of platelets transfused (5.9% risk estimate). (b) Risk of reoperation for bleeding as a function of lab-MELD score. There was a stepwise increase in the risk of reoperation for bleeding as recipient lab-MELD score increased. The lowest risk estimate was for a lab-MELD ≤10 (5.4% estimate) whereas the highest risk estimate was for a lab-MELD >30 (19.4% estimate).

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