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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Liver Transpl. 2017 Jun;23(6):769–780. doi: 10.1002/lt.24703

TABLE 3.

Recipient and Donor Characteristics at Primary LT and Re-LT in Patients With PSC

Primary LT
(n = 5080)
Re-LT
(n = 629)
P Value Early Re-LT
(n = 151)
Late Re-LT
(n = 478)
P Value
Age at LT, years 48 (38–57) 46 (36–55) <0.001 42 (34–55) 46 (37–55) 0.10
Male sex 3453 (68.0) 458 (72.8) 0.01 104 (68.9) 354 (74.1) 0.21
Race/ethnicity 0.71 0.85
  White 4168 (82.0) 518 (82.4) 126 (83.4) 392 (82.0)
  Black 629 (12.4) 82 (13.0) 19 (12.6) 63 (13.2)
  Hispanic 187 (3.7) 22 (3.5) 6 (4.0) 16 (3.3)
  Asian 62 (1.2) 5 (0.8) 0 5 (1.0)
  Other 33 (0.6) 2 (0.3) 0 2 (0.4)
Primary liver malignancy 106 (2.1) 4 (0.6) 0.01 1 (0.7) 3 (0.6) >0.99
  CCA 73 (1.4) 3 (0.5) 0.048 1 (0.7) 2 (0.4) 0.56
  HCC 32 (0.6) 1 (0.2) 0.26 0 (0.0) 1 (0.2) >0.99
  Other 1 (<0.1) 0 (0.0) >0.99 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0)
Location <0.001 <0.001
  In ICU 377 (7.4) 183 (29.1) 110 (72.8) 73 (15.3)
  Hospitalized 804 (15.8) 177 (28.1) 30 (19.9) 147 (30.8)
  Ambulatory 3897 (76.7) 269 (42.8) 11 (7.3) 258 (54.0)
Mechanical ventilation 100 (2.0) 102 (16.2) <0.001 66 (43.7) 36 (7.5) <0.001
MELD score* 19 (14–26) 25 (18–33) <0.001 24 (16–31) 25 (19–33) 0.27
Total bilirubin, mg/dL 6.4 (2.7–15.0) 10.8 (3.3–24.2) <0.001 8.6 (3.2–18.3) 11.8 (3.6–26.7) 0.02
Creatinine, mg/dL 0.9 (0.7–1.2) 1.3 (0.9–2.2) <0.001 1.1 (0.8–2.4) 1.4 (0.9–2.1) 0.16
Albumin, g/L 3.0 (2.5–3.5) 2.8 (2.4–3.3) <0.001 2.7 (2.3–3.2) 2.9 (2.4–3.3) 0.13
Living donor 551 (10.8) 8 (1.3) <0.001 0 (0.0) 8 (1.7) 0.21
DCD donor 120 (2.4) 6 (1.0) 0.02 0 (0.0) 6 (1.3) 0.34
Donor age ≥ 60 years 620 (12.2) 59 (9.4) 0.04 17 (11.3) 42 (8.8) 0.36
Split graft 621 (12.2) 12 (1.9) <0.001 1 (0.7) 11 (2.3) 0.31

NOTE: Data are given as n (%) or median (IQR).

*

Available for transplants performed after February 27, 2002 (n = 3175/5080, 442/629, 81/151, 361/478).