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Reduced impact of renal failure on the outcome of patients with alcoholic liver disease undergoing liver transplantation.

ABSTRACT: Pretransplant renal failure is commonly reported to be a poor prognostic indicator affecting survival after liver transplantation (LT). However, whether the impact of renal failure on patient outcome varies according to the aetiology of the underlying liver disease is largely unknown.We investigated the association between renal failure at the time of LT and patient outcome in patients with alcoholic liver disease (ALD) (n = 6920), non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) (n = 2956) and hepatitis C (HCV) (n = 14 922) using the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) database between February 2002 and December 2013. A total of 24 798 transplant recipients were included.The presence of renal failure was more frequently seen in patients with ALD (23.95%) and NASH (23.27%) compared to patients with HCV (19.38%) (P < 0.001). In multivariate analysis, renal failure was an independent predictor of poor survival. Renal failure showed detrimental effect on patient survival in the overall series (HR = 1.466, P < 0.0001). Importantly, the impact of renal failure was less marked in patients with ALD (HR = 1.31, P < 0.0001) than in patients with NASH (HR = 1.73, P < 0.0001) or HCV (HR = 1.52, P < 0.0001). Despite a higher model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) score at the time of LT, ALD patients with renal failure had better long-term prognosis than non-ALD patients.Renal failure at the time of LT conferred a lower patient and graft survival post-LT. However, renal failure has less impact on the outcome of patients with ALD than that of patients with non-alcoholic liver disease after LT.

SUBMITTER: Cheong J

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5136341 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Reduced impact of renal failure on the outcome of patients with alcoholic liver disease undergoing liver transplantation.

Cheong Jaeyoun J Galanko Joseph A JA Arora Sumant S Cabezas Joaquin J Ndugga Nambi J NJ Lucey Michael R MR Hayashi Paul H PH Barritt Alfred Sidney AS Bataller Ramon R

Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver 20160704 2

<h4>Background & aims</h4>Pretransplant renal failure is commonly reported to be a poor prognostic indicator affecting survival after liver transplantation (LT). However, whether the impact of renal failure on patient outcome varies according to the aetiology of the underlying liver disease is largely unknown.<h4>Methods</h4>We investigated the association between renal failure at the time of LT and patient outcome in patients with alcoholic liver disease (ALD) (n = 6920), non-alcoholic steatohe ...[more]

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Project description:Clinical and molecular mechanisms involved in the cause and time of death of alcoholic cirrhosis (AC) patients undergoing liver transplantation (LT) are not entirely understood. In sudden death cases, judicial autopsy practice is mandatory for determining the cause and circumstances of death. The medico-legal autopsy data are essential for helping health authorities to guide future public health activities, assess the effectiveness of health systems, and adopt the necessary preventive measures to improve and adapt the treatments in order to increase these patients' survival. Our study aimed to determine the different clinical and sociodemographic causes that influence the different causes of death and the short- and long-term survival of AC patients undergoing liver transplantation. A total of 122 deceased AC patients undergoing LT were analyzed at different times post-transplantation. The main pre- and post-transplant complications were analyzed in relation to the cause of death and the patient's survival, as well as the causes and time at which the patient's death occurred. A total of 53.3% of non-sudden death was observed. A large number of the deaths of AC patients undergoing transplantation were due to non-sudden death, sepsis, and graft failure (GF), the main causes of death in the sample being similar in both sexes. In non-sudden deaths, there were no significant differences between the death rates either related or not related to the liver transplant. Sepsis was the main cause, with the highest percentage (21.3%) of mortality, followed by GF (18.9%) and multiorgan failure (15.6%) at ten years. Furthermore, our results showed how pre-transplant clinical complications, such as viral infections and encephalopathy, influence the age at which multiorgan failure occurs in the transplanted patient. Multiorgan failure is the leading cause of sudden death, with higher mortality during the first year after transplantation, followed by sepsis and GF. Our results show the vulnerability of AC patients, both in the hospital period after the transplant and outside.

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Reduced impact of renal failure on the outcome of patients with alcoholic liver disease undergoing liver transplantation.

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Reduced impact of renal failure on the outcome of patients with alcoholic liver disease undergoing liver transplantation.

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