Table 3.
Summary of donor and transplant characteristics for adult elective first ever liver only deceased donor transplants: 1 January 2006–31 December 2017
| Variables | SWLU | KCH (Ex. SWLU) | National (Ex. KCH and SWLU) | SWLU versus KCH (P value)* (Ex. SWLU) | SWLU versus national (P value)* (Ex. KCH and SWLU) | |
| Patients (n) | 172 | 1246 | 4722 | |||
| Donor characteristics | ||||||
| Sex | Male | 106 (62%) | 679 (54%) | 2508 (53%) | 0.09 | 0.03 |
| Female | 66 (38%) | 567 (46%) | 2214 (47%) | |||
| Ethnicity | White | 164 (95%) | 1162 (93%) | 4480 (95%) | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Non-white | 8 (5%) | 84 (7%) | 242 (5%) | |||
| Donor type | DBD | 132 (77%) | 905 (73%) | 3742 (79%) | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| DCD | 40 (23%) | 341 (27%) | 980 (21%) | |||
| ABO match | Identical | 172 (100%) | 1230 (99%) | 4650 (98%) | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| Compatible | 0 (0%) | 15 (1%) | 69 (1%) | |||
| Incompatible | 0 (0%) | 1 (0%) | 3 (0%) | |||
| Age (years) | Median (IQR) | 51 (38–62.5) | 53 (41–64) | 49 (37–60) | 0.3 | 0.08 |
| BMI (kg/m2) | Median (IQR) | 26.1 (23.6–30.1) | 25.5 (23.1–28.7) | 25.7 (23.1–28.7) | 0.04 | 0.05 |
| Transplant characteristics | ||||||
| Graft type | Whole | 155 (90%) | 1133 (91%) | 4349 (92%) | 0.7 | 0.3 |
| Segment | 17 (10%) | 113 (9%) | 373 (8%) | |||
| Cold ischaemia time (hours) | Median (IQR) | 8.5 (7–10) | 8.5 (7–10) | 8.4 (7–10) | 0.5 | 0.7 |
| Time to transplant (days) | Median (IQR) | 156 (72–338) | 137 (55–2930 | 75 (27–181) | 0.11 | < 0.0001 |
| Range | 2–1159 | 0–2425 | 0–2307 | |||
Bold text indicates significant results.
*Fisher’s exact or χ2 p values for categorical data and Kruskal-Wallis p values for continuous data (p<0.05 considered statistically significant).
DBD, donor after brain death; DCD, donor after circulatory death; Ex., excluded; KCH, King’s College Hospital; SWLU, South West Liver Unit.