Type of Preservation Solution, UW or HTK, Has an Impact on the Incidence of Biliary Stricture following Liver Transplantation: A Retrospective Study

Table 3

Intraoperative finding of recipient operation for donor liver grafts preserved using HTK or UW.

	HTK (n = 230)	UW (n = 203)
Operation time (minutes)	428 ± 113	444 ± 128	0.18
Total bleeding (ml)	2,500 (125–40,500)	3,000 (150–50,000)	0.22
Intraoperative total blood transfusion (U)	4 (0–82)	5 (0–69)	0.71
Arterial flow (ml/minute)	372 ± 191	349 ± 171	0.08
Portal flow (ml/minute)	1,879 ± 841	1,848 ± 775	0.96
Number of arteries (%)			0.30
Simple	73%	68.5%
Double	22.6%	28.6%
Triple	4.3%	3%
Venous by-pass (%)	18.7%	16.7%	0.59
Hepatic vein reconstruction (%)			0.20
Hepato-hepatic	73.9%	79.8%
Side-to-side	6.1%	3%
End-to-end	20%	17.2%
Bile duct reconstruction (%)			0.64
Duct-to-duct	78.7%	76.8%
Duct-to-enterostomy	21.3%	23.2%
Bile duct stent tube (%)	40.4%	39.4%	0.82
Type of stent tube (% of tubes)			0.74
Internal	33.3%	31.2%
T-tube	18.3%	15%
External baby feeding	48.4%	53.8%

HTK: histidine tryptophan ketoglutarate; UW: the University of Wisconsin; n: number; mean ± SD, median (min-max).