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. 2020 Aug 7;45(3):101512. doi: 10.1016/j.clinre.2020.07.017

Table 1.

Recipient and donor characteristics.

2020 (n = 21) 2019 (n = 21) P-value
Recipient characteristics
 Male 16 (76%) 15 (71%) .99
 Age, years 56 [51–65] 58 [56–62] .72
Etiology of cirrhosis .15
 Viral 4 (20%) 11 (52%)
 Alcoholic 7 (35%) 5 (24%)
 AIH and cholestatic disorders 5 (25%) 1 (5%)
 NASH 2 (10%) 1 (5%)
 Others 2 (10%) 3 (14%)
Etiology of ALF
 Viral 1 (5%) 0
HCC in cirrhotic patients 9 (45%) 8 (38%) .75
Blood type .63
 A 12 (57%) 11 (52%)
 B 2 (10%) 5 (24%)
 AB 1 (5%) 1 (5%)
 0 6 (29%) 4 (19%)
Multiple organs transplant 3 (14%) 1 (5%) .61
MELD at LT 17 [12–22] 13 [9–18] .13



Donor characteristic
 Age, years 58 [38–72] 60 [51–63] .45
 Donor after cardiac death 1 (5%) 0 .99
 Suboptimal graft 10 (48%) 7 (33%) .53
 Regional donors 18 (86%) 16 (76%) .69
Transplant operation
 Ex vivo machine perfusion 4 (19%)a 6 (29%) .72
 Cold Ischemia Time, minutes 452 [346–473] 431 [393–495] .99
Post-transplant course
 EAD 5 (24%) 7 (33%) .73
 ICU-stay, days 5 [4], [5], [6], [7] 4 [3], [4], [5], [6] .69
 Hospital-stay, days 11 [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16], [17] 13 [8–21] .82
 Discharge home 20b (95%) 21 (100%) 1

Abbreviations: AIH, autoimmune hepatitis; EAD, early graft dysfunction, according to Olthoff; HCC, hepatocellular carcinoma; ICU, intensive care unit; LT, liver transplantation; MELD, Model for the End-stage Liver Disease; NASH, non-alcoholic steato-hepatitis.

a

One out of four with normothermic machine perfusion.

b

One still hospitalized (combined lung-liver-pancreas transplant).