Research Article

Factors Affecting Health-Related Quality of Life and Physical Activity after Liver Transplantation for Autoimmune and Nonautoimmune Liver Diseases: A Prospective, Single Centre Study

Table 1

Demographic and clinical data on analyzed patients.

Total number of patients
Age at transplantation [years, mean ± SD (range)] 46.7 ± 11.6 (17–63)
Age at survey [years, mean ± SD (range)]49.9 ± 11.4 (21–67)
Gender [male/female]62 (57.9%)/45 (42.1%)
BMI [kg/m2, mean ± SD (range)]27.0 ± 5.0 (18.0–43.0)
Period after transplantation
 Group-A (6–12 months)21 (19.6%)
 Group-B (13–36 months)48 (44.9%)
 Group-C ( >36 months)38 (35.5%)
Employment (yes/no)40 (37.4%)/67 (62.6%)
Original diagnosis
 Alcohol liver disease24 (22.4%)
 Viral hepatitides15 (14.0%)
 Autoimmune hepatitis10 (9.4%)
 Autoimmune cholestatic (PBC, PSC)23 (21.5%)
 Other*35 (32.7%)

Group-A: 6 months to 12 months after liver transplantation; group-B: from 12 months to 36 months after liver transplantation; group-C: over 36 months after liver transplantation;   other reasons for LTx included cryptogenic cirrhosis ; Fulminant Wilson’s , chronic Wilson’s ; non-A, non-B hepatitis ; amanita poisoning ; Budd-Chiari syndrome ; secondary biliary cirrhosis and acute fatty liver of pregnancy . BMI: body mass index; PBC: primary biliary cirrhosis; PSC: primary sclerosing cholangitis.