Table 3.

Prednisone Doses and Serum Bilirubin Concentrations at 1 Yr and Causes of Eventual Death in 19 Patients Who Died More Than 1 Yr After Liver Transplantation

OT No.	Days survival	Age at operation (yr)	Original disease	Pathology of graft	Main cause of death	Bilirubin at 1 yr (mg%)	Prednisone dose at 1 yr (mg/kg/day)
8	400	1.5	Hepatoma	Biliary obstruction; metastatic tumor	Recurrent cancer	12.5	0.33
13	901 (881 + 20)^a	2	Biliary atresia	1. Chronic rejection 2. Aspergillus infection	Infection after retransplantation	16.4	0.39
14	436 (379 + 57)	16	Hepatoma	1. Chronic rejection 2. Normal	Technical and infectious compli- cations after second grafting	37.5	0.26
16	404 (65 + 339)^a	2	Biliary atresia	1. Chronic rejection 2. Chronic rejection	Liver failure	10.0	1.25
19	1238	4	Biliary atresia	Chronic rejection	Liver failure; lung infection	0.7	1.5
27	2190	11	Wilson’s disease	Partial biliary obstruction; chronic rejection	Liver failure	0.5	0.33
29	377	5	Biliary atresia	Chronic hepatitis	Liver failure	7.0	0.6
36	623	28	Chronic aggressive hepatitis	Chronic aggressive hepatitis	Liver failure; nocardial infection	1.0	0.38
54	586 (566 + 22)^a	22	Chronic aggressive hepatitis	1. Biliary obstruction 2. Normal	Hemorrhagic pancreatitis; infection after retransplantation	0.6	0.5
55	780	6	Chronic aggressive hepatitis	Biliary obstruction	Liver failure	28.0	0.7
58	407	34	Chronic aggressive hepatitis	Biliary obstruction	Liver failure	40.8	0.36
74	855 (820 + 35)^a	16	Alpha₁-antitrypsin deficiency	1. Chronic rejection 2. Normal	Injection after retransplantation	0.8	0.7
78	747	48	Duct cell carcinoma	Tumor recurrence	Recurrent cancer	0.5	0.29
89	590	3.5	Biliary atresia	Chronic rejection; thrombosis of intrahepatic portal branches	Infection	0.4	0.71
98	511 (37 + 474)^a	1	Biliary atresia	1. Acute rejection 2. Chronic rejection	Liver failure	2.3	2.5
103	1085 (682 + 403)^a	21	Primary biliary cirrhosis	1. Chronic rejection 2. Chronic rejection; massive liver necrosis	Infection after conversion of cholecystojejunostomy to choledochojejunostomy; liver failure	4.0	0.55
106	469	19	Chronic aggressive hepatitis	Healed acute rejection	Infection; liver failure	2.0	0.33
113	695	3	Biliary atresia	Massive liver necrosis	Systemic chicken pox; bacterial infection	0.6	1.7
126	497	11	Biliary atresia	Chronic rejection; portal vein thrombosis	Liver failure; gastrointestinal hemorrhage	4.0	0.8

Underwent retransplantation. Figures in parentheses are survival of first and second grafts.