‘First week’ is the crucial period for deciding living donor liver transplantation in patients with acute-on-chronic liver failure

Background and aims Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is a rapidly progressive illness with high short-term mortality. Timely liver transplant (LT) may improve survival. We evaluated various indices for assessment of the severity of liver failure and their application for eligibility and timing...

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Veröffentlicht in:Hepatology international 2021-12, Vol.15 (6), p.1376-1388
Hauptverfasser: Choudhury, Ashok, Vijayaraghavan, Rajan, Maiwall, Rakhi, Kumar, Manoj, Duan, Zhongping, Yu, Chen, Hamid, Saeed Sadiq, Jafri, Wasim, Butt, Amna Subhan, Devarbhavi, Harshad, Ning, Qin, Ma, Ke, Tan, Soek-Siam, Shukla, Akash, Dhiman, Radhakrishna, Duseja, Ajay, Taneja, Sunil, Eapen, C. E., Goel, Ashish, Treeprasertsuk, Sombat, Al-Mahtab, Mamun, Ghazinyan, Hasmik, Kim, Dong Joon, Sahu, Manoj K., Lee, Guan Huei, Lesmana, Laurentius A., Lesmana, Rinaldi Cosmas, Shah, Samir, Abbas, Zaigham, Sollano, Jose D., Rao, P. N., Kulkarni, Anand, Shiha, Gamal, Shrestha, Ananta, Dokmeci, AKadir, Yuen, Man Fung, Payawal, Diana Alcantara, Kalista, Kemal Fariz, Prasad, V. G. Mohan, Lau, George K., Karim, Fazal, Jain, Priyanka, Kumar, Guresh, Arora, Vinod, Pamecha, Viniyendra, Sinha, Piyush, Sarin, Shiv K.
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Zusammenfassung:Background and aims Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is a rapidly progressive illness with high short-term mortality. Timely liver transplant (LT) may improve survival. We evaluated various indices for assessment of the severity of liver failure and their application for eligibility and timing of living donor LT (LDLT). Methods Altogether 1021 patients were analyzed for the severity and organ failure at admission to determine transplant eligibility and 28 day survival with or without transplant. Results The ACLF cohort [mean age 44 ± 12.2 years, males 81%) was of sick patients; 55% willing for LT at admission, though 63% of them were ineligible due to sepsis or organ failure. On day 4, recovery in sepsis and/or organ failure led to an improvement in transplant eligibility from 37% at baseline to 63.7%. Delay in LT up to 7 days led to a higher incidence of multiorgan failure ( p  
ISSN:1936-0533
1936-0541
DOI:10.1007/s12072-021-10206-6