Patient sex and use of tranexamic acid in liver transplantation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Differences in medical treatment between women and men are common and involve out-of-hospital emergency care, the intensity of pain treatment, and the use of antifibrinolytic treatment in emergency trauma patients. If woman and man receive different antifibrinolytic treatment in highly-standardized major transplant surgery is unknown.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective cohort study on patients who underwent liver transplantation at Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany between 2004 and 2017. Logistic regression analyses were performed to determine if sex is associated with the administration of TXA during liver transplantation. Secondary endpoints included venous thrombotic complications, graft failure, mortality, myocardial infarction, hepatic art

SUBMITTER: Dehne S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11456493 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature