Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristics of the 274 patients who underwent transjugular liver biopsy.

Patients characteristics	Without liver transplant (n = 165)	With liver transplant (n = 109)
Age (years), mean (SD)	48 (15)	52 (9)*
Sex (male/female)	92:73	82:27†
Cause of underlying disease, n (%)‡
Primary liver disease	126 (77)	109 (100)
HCV	21 (13)	42 (39)
Alcoholic liver disease/non‐alcoholic steatohepatitis	48 (29)	24 (22)
PBC/PSC	–	15 (14)
Autoimmune	13 (8)	4 (3)
Cryptogenic	31 (19)	16 (15)
Other§	13 (8)	8 (7)
Haematological disease, n (%)¶	25 (15)	–
Other/unknown	14 (8)	–

HCV, hepatitis C virus; PBC, primary biliary cirrhosis; PSC, primary sclerosing cholangitis.

*p = 0.01.

†p = 0.001.

‡For patients with a liver transplant is the indication for liver transplantation.

§Other underlying diseases include drug‐induced hepatitis, haemochromatosis, Wilson's disease.

¶Haematological disease includes lymphoma, leukaemia, graft versus host disease.