Risk Factors Associated with Reoperation for Bleeding following Liver Transplantation

Table 4

Cause of death.

Variable	Reoperation for bleeding	Control group
Number of deaths	28 (27.7%)	137 (16.5%)
Cause of death^a
Infection	35.7%	25.6%
Cancer	3.6%	19.0%
Cardiac disease	3.6%	10.2%
Recurrent HCV	21.4%	9.5%
Other^b	35.7%	35.8%
Death prior to discharge	4.95%	2.54%
Death within 12 months of LTx	15.84%	7.78%

^aProportions for cause of death are calculated on the subset of 165 individuals (137 with no hemorrhage, 28 with hemorrhage) that died within 60 months of transplant. All other proportions are based on total sample size.
^bOther causes of death include chronic rejection, cerebrovascular accident, gastrointestinal bleeding, chronic renal failure, graft versus host disease, suicide, and recurrent Budd-Chiari syndrome.
HCV: hepatitis c virus; LTx: liver transplantation.