Table 4.
Characteristics and risk factors for liver graft injury among 89 patients who underwent liver transplantation for ALD.
| Variable | No graft_injury n=64 Median/% AR |
Graft_injury n=25 Median/% AR |
P* |
|---|---|---|---|
| Age at liver transplantation | 56.15/48.42 | 51.95/36.24 | 0.0456 |
| Sex (% Females) | 26.56 | 20.00 | 0.5288 |
| Hospital stay (days) | 25.00/43.53 | 27.00/48.76 | 0.3906 |
| Days survived (from LTx to end of study period) | 1270.0/41.34 | 1910.0/54.36 | 0.0327 |
| Death post Ltx (%) | 3.13 | 12.00 | 0.1358 |
| Alcohol use relapse (%) | 9.38 | 68.00 | <0.0001 |
| Harmful drinking (%) | 3.13 | 40.00 | <0.0001 |
| Occasional drinking(%) | 6.25 | 28.00 | 0.0073 |
| Mental disorders (%) | 0.00 | 4.00 | 0.2552 |
| 6 months rule prior to LTx (%) | 100.00 | 100.00 | 1.0000 |
| Cigarette smoking (%) | 15.63 | 48.00 | 0.0019 |
| Loss of socialstatus (divorce loss of part single) (%) | 14.06 | 44.00 | 0.003 |
| Compliance with controls (%) | 95.31 | 68.00 | 0.0008 |
| Employed post Tx (%) | 21.88 | 24.00 | 0.8334 |
| Unemployed post Tx (%) | 1.56 | 4.00 | 0.5691 |
| Invalidity post Tx (%) | 45.31 | 56.00 | 0.3724 |
*
Mann-Whitney test, AR – average rank.