Intensive care unit readmission in adult Egyptian patients undergoing living donor liver transplant: A single-centre retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients who undergo living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) may suffer complications that require intensive care unit (ICU) readmission.

Aim

To identify the incidence, causes, and outcomes of ICU readmission after LDLT.

Methods

A retrospective cohort study was conducted on patients who underwent LDLT. The collected data included patient demographics, preoperative characteristics, intraoperative details; postoperative stay, complications, causes of ICU readmission, and outcomes. Patients were divided into two groups according to ICU readmission after hospital discharge. Risk factors for ICU readmission were identified in univariate and multivariate analyses.

Results

The present study included 299 patients. Thirty-one (10.4%) patients were readmitte

SUBMITTER: Salah M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9258246 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature