Trends in liver transplantation for autoimmune liver diseases: a Canadian study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To our knowledge, no analysis of data from liver transplantation registries exists in Canada. We aimed to describe temporal trends in the number of liver transplantation procedures, patient characteristics and posttransplantation outcomes for autoimmune liver diseases (AILDs) in Canada.

Methods

We used administrative data from the Canadian Organ Replacement Register, which contains liver transplantation information from 6 centres in Canada. This study included transplantation information from 5 of the centres, as liver transplantation procedures in children were not included. We included adult (age ≥ 18 yr) patients with a diagnosis of primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) or overlap syndrome (PBC-AIH o

SUBMITTER: Murillo Perez CF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9564189 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature