McKenna et al. Hepatology. 2009; 50; 590A: Abstract 602 [101]
Median weight 2 years: 75.3 versus 84.1 (SRL versus non-SRL, ) 5 years: 79.5 versus 88.6 (SRL versus non-SRL, )
Everolimus
Early conversion (≤3 months after conversion)
De Simone et al. Am J Transplant. 2012; 12: 3008–20 [87]
Incidence of NODM in non-diabetics at randomization in EVR + TAC-RD: 32.0% versus TAC-SD: 28.6%
17.1 versus 15.8 (EVR + TAC-RD versus TAC-SD, RR 1.09, 95% CI 0.73, 1.62)
Total cholesterol: mean (SD) values at month 12 (EVR + TAC-RD versus TAC-SD): 209 (43) mg/dL versus 175 (44) mg/dL Triglycerides: 197 (136) mg/dL versus 141 (78) mg/dL
Fischer et al. Am J Transplant. 2012; 12: 1855–65 [50]
Diabetes mellitus: 4.0 versus 7.8 (EVR versus CNI, )
Hypertension: 19.8 versus 13.7 (EVR versus CNI, )
Hypercholesterolemia: 22.8 versus 10.8* Hyperlipidemia: 11.9 versus 2.0* (EVR versus CNI)
Masetti et al. Am J Transplant. 2010; 10: 2252–62 [89]
Significantly higher cholesterol levels in EVR versus CsA: 9.6 versus 7.7 required statin treatment (EVR versus CsA)
Late conversion (>3 months after conversion)
Bilbao et al. Presented at ILTS; 2011 (Abstract P-68) [56]
7/18 recipients who had diabetes mellitus at conversion to EVR showed improvement
Casanovas et al. Transplant Proc. 2011; 43: 2216–9 [93]
Dyslipidemia: 27.3
Castroagudín et al. Liver Transpl. 2009; 15: 1792–7 [94]
Before and after conversion: triglyceride: versus mg/dL ; cholesterol: versus mg/dL
De Simone et al. Transpl Int. 2009; 22: 279–86 [95]
Hyperlipemia: 42.5
De Simone et al. Liver Transpl. 2009; 15: 1262–9 [96]
Hypercholesterolemia: 13.9 versus 2.7
Vallin et al. Clin Transplant. 2011; 25: 660–9 [99]
Incidence of diabetes did not significantly vary after EVR introduction (before versus after: 30 versus 31)
Incidence of arterial hypertension did not significantly vary after EVR introduction (before versus after: 59 versus 53)
Hyperlipidemia: 37
Saliba et al. Liver Transpl. 2011; 17: 905–13 [98]
BMI: body mass index; CNI: calcineurin inhibitor; EVR: everolimus; ILTS: 2011 Joint International Congress of the International Liver Transplantation Society; NODM: new-onset diabetes mellitus; NS: nonsignificant; SD: standard deviation; SRL: sirolimus; TAC: tacrolimus; TAC-RD: reduced-dose tacrolimus (C0: 3–5 ng/mL); TAC-SD: standard-dose tacrolimus (C0: 6–10 ng/mL). values are included where available. Treatment group differences with an exploratory value ≤ 0.05.