Table 3.
Non‐LC * | LC * | |||||||||||
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Liver number | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 1 † | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 † |
Donor age, years | 55 | 55 | 76 | 60 | 46 | 71 | 30 | 69 | 55 | 57 | 70 | 50 |
Donor sex | Female | Male | Female | Female | Male | Male | Male | Male | Male | Male | Female | Female |
BMI, kg/m2 | 47 | 33 | 28 | 36 | 23 | 30 | 25 | 31 | 24 | 25 | 34 | 45 |
Blood group | B+ | A+ | O+ | A+ | O+ | O‐ | A+ | O+ | O+ | A+ | O+ | O+ |
Cause of death | Meningitis | ICH | ICH | HBI | ICH | HBI | HBI | HBI | Meningitis | ICH | HBI | HBI |
Donor type | DBD | DCD | DCD | DCD | DBD | DCD | DCD | DBD | DBD | DCD | DCD | DCD |
Agonal period, minutes | NA | 14 | 8 | 17 | NA | 31 | 100 | NA | NA | 14 | 16 | 29 |
Primary WIT, minutes | NA | 12 | 17 | 15 | NA | 12 | 12 | NA | NA | 14 | 18 | 11 |
Liver weight, grams | 2420 | 2130 | 1775 | 1712 | 1961 | 2310 | 1997 | 2400 | 2300 | 1752 | 1650 | 1943 |
Steatosis assessment †† | Moderate | Moderate | Nil | Moderate | Mild | Moderate | Nil | Mild | Nil | Mild | Mild | Nil |
CIT, minutes | 792 | 797 | 554 | 491 | 380 | 467 | 445 | 496 | 454 | 532 | 583 | 408 |
Donor risk index | 1.85 | 2.64 | 3.23 | 2.77 | 1.41 | 3.22 | 1.77 | 1.78 | 1.61 | 2.36 | 3.05 | 2.39 |
Reason for discard | Steatosis | Steatosis | CIT § | Steatosis | ITU | Perfusion || | WIT ¶ | Fibrosis | Cancer | Cancer | CIT§ | WIT¶ |
Agonal period in DCD procurement was defined as the period between withdrawal of treatment to circulatory arrest. Primary WIT in DCD procurement designs time from circulatory arrest to in situ organs perfusion.
*
The livers are grouped according the lactate metabolism (viability criteria) rather than the chronological order of the perfusion.
†
Designates livers that were transplanted.
††
Subjective assessment by the retrieval and/or transplant surgeon.
§
Prolonged CIT.
||
Poor quality liver graft perfusion.
¶
Extensive WIT and CIT.