Table 2.

Pre-, per- and post-operative characteristics of recipients

Characteristics	Recipient of (R) liver without pre-conditionning n =22 cases	Recipient of (R) liver with pre-conditionning n =22 cases	P-value
Male/female (ratio)	17/5	18/4	>0.9
Age (years)	46.5 ± 13.6	47.6 ± 11.5	0.8
No. transplanted for			0.5
Cirrhosis	6	9
Cancer	13	8
Other	3	5
Graft to body weight ratio (%)	1.14 ± 0.39	1.18 ± 0.31	0.7
Cold ischaemia time (minutes)	87 ± 31	92 ± 28	0.6
Warm ischaemia time (minutes)	68 ± 27	63 ± 27	0.6
Number of blood units transfused	4.5 ± 4.6	3.7 ± 3.5	0.9
Peak AST (IU/L)	290 ± 146	307 ± 189	0.4
Peak ALT (IU/L)	496 ± 343	437 ± 302	0.8
Minimum prothrombin time (% of normal)	36.4 ± 13.3	37.7 ± 8.5	0.7
Bilirubin day 7 (µmol/L)	107 ± 97	132 ± 104	0.4
Duration of stay (days)
Overall	41.3 ± 21.3	35.7 ± 8.7	0.3
In intensive care unit	10.4 ± 5.4	12.0 ± 6.6	0.4
Morbidity n (%)	7 (31.8)	8 (36.4)	0.9
In-hospital mortality n (%)	2 (9)	1 (4.5)	0.5
Actuarial survival rate at 1 year (%)
Patient	86.1	95.5	0.08
Graft	88.9	80.2	0.6

AST, aspartate aminotransferase; ALT, alanine aminotransferase.