. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 12.

Published in final edited form as: J Heart Lung Transplant. 2014 Dec 23;34(7):873–882. doi: 10.1016/j.healun.2014.12.009

Table 2.

Comparison of HTx Candidates Who Did or Did Not Have Liver Biopsy

	Biopsy (n = 68)	No biopsy (n = 200)	p-value
Total bilirubin (mg/dl)	2.53 ± 5.0	1.7 ± 2.1	0.19
Creatinine (mg/dl)	1.74 ± 1.3	1.49 ± 0.8	0.14
Albumin (mg/dl)	3.6 ± 0.7	3.78 ± 0.6	0.04
MELD-XI	12.7 ± 3.3	13.2 ± 5.2	0.33
Fibrosis or cirrhosis on abdominal sonogram (%)	76.5	21.5	< 0.001
Serologic evidence of hepatitis B or C (%)	32.4	13.5	< 0.001

MELD-XI, Model of End-stage Liver Dysfunction eXcluding International normalized ratio.