A single center analysis of long-term outcomes and survival related risk factors in liver retransplantation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Liver retransplant is the only option to save a patient with liver graft failure. However, it is controversial due to its poor survival outcome compared to primary transplantation. Insufficient deceased organ donation in Taiwan leads to high waitlist mortality. Hence, living-donor grafts offer a valuable alternative for retransplantation. This study aims to analyze the single center's outcome in living donor liver retransplantation (re-LDLT) and deceased donor liver retransplantation (re-DDLT) as well as the survival related confounding risk factors.

Methods

This is a single center retrospective study including 32 adults who underwent liver retransplantation (re-LT) from June 2002 to April 2020. The cohort was divided into a re-LDLT and a re-DDLT group and surviva

SUBMITTER: Li Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11190508 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature