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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 23.
Published in final edited form as: J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2012 May;54(5):580–587. doi: 10.1097/MPG.0b013e31824711b7

TABLE 4.

Mortality in conditions associated with congenital hepatic fibrosis

CHF subtype

All conditions Isolated CHF ARPKD CD/CS Type V CC
Reported: 411 Reported: 41 Reported: 249 Reported: 117 Reported: 4
Presence: 130 Present: 13 Present: 80 Present: 36 Present*: 1
Age at death, y: sample reported (median, range) 31 (14, 0–71.5) 8 (29, 12–61) 18 (5.7, 0–43) 6 (17, 0.9–71.5)
Development time from 36 (1.8, 0–45) 8 (2, 0–45) 23 (0.5, 0–32.8) 6 (1.8, 0.7–28)
  CHF subtype diagnosis, y: sample reported (median, range)

Time followed after diagnosis (y): 164 reports (5, 0–38). Cause of death: 78 reports—sepsis (37%), cholangiocarcinoma (15%), gastrointestinal bleeding (6%), portopulmonary hypertension (5%), liver failure (4%), other (33%). Other causes of death included respiratory failure and pulmonary hypoplasia (6), cerebral ischemia (5), unspecified malignancy (3), graft failure (2), renal failure (2), encephelopathy (1), uremia (1), encephelopathy (1), multiple organ failure (1), central line complication (1), posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorder (1), motor vehicle crash (1), fulminant hepatitis B (1). ARPKD = autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease; CC = choledochal cyst; CHF = congenital hepatic fibrosis; CS = Caroli syndrome.

*

No age of death reported.