Short-Term Cardiac and Noncardiac Mortality Following Liver Transplantation

Table 1

Liver transplant patient characteristics.

$N$ = patients	393
Age (years)	52.0 $\pm$ 10.1 (range 17–72)
Male	267 (68%)
Diabetes Mellitus	94 (24%)
Hypertension	85 (21%)
History of smoking	240 (58%)
Smoking within 1 year of transplant	89 (23%)
Known Coronary Artery Disease	11 (3%)
MELD score at time of transplant	21 $\pm$ 8
Cold Ischemic Time (hours)	5.9 $\pm$ 2.5
Etiology of Liver Failure
Hepatitis C	161 (41%)
Alcohol-related cirrhosis	51 (13%)
Hepatocellular carcinoma	50 (12%)
Cryptogenic idiopathic cirrhosis	24 (6%)
Primary sclerosing cholangitis	20 (5%)
Primary biliary cirrhosis	12 (3%)
Other	65 (17%)

MELD: model for end stage liver disease.