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The clinical significance of early histological rejection with or without biochemical abnormality in adult living donor liver transplantation for hepatitis B virus related end stage liver disease
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- Issue Date
- 2006-12-22
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing
- Citation
- Transpl Int. 2007 Jan;20(1):37-44.
- Keywords
- Adult ; Biopsy ; Female ; Graft Rejection/immunology/*pathology ; Graft Survival ; Hepatitis B/*complications/pathology ; Humans ; Immunosuppressive Agents/therapeutic use ; Liver Failure, Acute/immunology/pathology/*surgery/virology ; Liver Transplantation/immunology/mortality/*pathology ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Survival Analysis ; Living Donors
- Abstract
- There is no agreement regarding the treatment of early allograft rejection (EAR) in adult living donor liver transplantation (LDLT). A protocol biopsy was performed in 62 adult LDLT recipients. Twenty-one patients (33.9%) had histological evidence of EAR. Of these, 14 patients had biochemical abnormalities and seven patients had no associated biochemical abnormalities. None of the seven patients with subclinical EAR (11.3% of the entire study population) were treated, and no subsequent rejection was observed. Gender mismatch (female-to-male) was the single independent risk factor for histological EAR [odds ratio (OR) = 13.458; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.836-98.649] and the cumulative probability for a subsequent rejection was higher in patients with EAR (OR = 11.085; 95% CI, 1.221-100.654). However, the actuarial 1 year patient and graft survival rate in patients with EAR (81.0% and 85.5%) were similar to those without EAR (92.7% and 97.25%; P = 0.127 and 0.302, respectively). The presence of an initial biochemical abnormality was an independent risk factor for both a decreased patient survival (OR = 5.827; 95% CI, 1.095-31.017; P = 0.039) and graft loss (OR = 20.646; 95% CI, 2.044-208.524; P = 0.010). Subsequent rejection developed more frequently in patients with EAR. However, the survival is not determined by the presence of EAR but by the presence of a biochemical abnormality.
- ISSN
- 0934-0874 (Print)
- Language
- English
- URI
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=17181651
https://hdl.handle.net/10371/15605
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