Research Article
Short-Term Cardiac and Noncardiac Mortality Following Liver Transplantation
Table 1
Liver transplant patient characteristics.
| = patients | 393 | Age (years) | 52.0 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 8 | Cold Ischemic Time (hours) | 5.9 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%) |
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MELD: model for end stage liver disease.
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