Gad EH, Sallam AN, Soliman H, Ibrahim T, Salem TAH, Ali MAH, Al-Sayed Abd-same M, Ayoub I. Pediatric living donor liver transplantation (LDLT): Short- and long-term outcomes during sixteen years period at a single centre- A retrospective cohort study.
Ann Med Surg (Lond) 2022;
79:103938. [PMID:
35860167 PMCID:
PMC9289343 DOI:
10.1016/j.amsu.2022.103938]
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Abstract
Background and objectives
Pediatric living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is an effective tool for managing pediatric patients with end-stage liver disease (ESLD) with good long-term graft and patient survival, especially after improvement in peri-operative care, surgical tools and techniques; however, the morbidity and mortality after such a procedure are still a challenging matter. The study aimed to analyze short-and long-term outcomes after pediatric LDLT in a single centre.
Methods
We retrospectively analyzed 67 pediatric patients who underwent LDLT in the period from April 2003 to July 2018. The overall male/female ratio was 40/27.
Results
Forty-one (61.2%) of patients had ≥1 early and/or late morbidities; the early (less than 3months) and late (≥3months) ones affected 36(53.7%) and 12(17.9%) of them respectively. The 16-year graft and patient survivals were 35(52.2%) while early and late mortalities were 23(34.3%) and 9(13.4%) respectively. Sepsis and chronic rejection were the most frequent causes of early and late mortalities respectively. Moreover, more packed RBCs transfusion units, bacterial infections, and pulmonary complications were independent predictors of poor patient survival.
Conclusions
More packed RBCs transfusion units intra-operatively, and post-liver transplant (LT) bacterial infection, sepsis, chronic rejection, as well as pulmonary complications had a negative insult on our patients' outcomes, so proper management of them is mandatory for improving outcomes after pediatric LDLT.
More packed RBCs transfusion units intra-operatively had a negative insult on outcomes after paediatric LDLT.
Bacterial infection and pulmonary complications led to poor outcomes after paediatric LDLT.
Sepsis and chronic rejection led to post paediatric LDLT poor patient outcomes.
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