Research Article
Type of Preservation Solution, UW or HTK, Has an Impact on the Incidence of Biliary Stricture following Liver Transplantation: A Retrospective Study
Table 4
Postoperative complications for donor liver grafts preserved using HTK or UW.
| | HTK (n = 230) | UW (n = 203) | |
| Postop reop due to bleeding (%) | 7.1% | 10.4% | 0.22 | Biliary stricture (%) | 13.5% | 22.7% | 0.013 | Biliary stricture in first year | 10% | 18.2% | 0.013 | Type of biliary stricture | | | 0.61 | Only anastomotic stricture | 58.1% | 52.2% | | Nonanastomotic stricture | 41.9% | 47.8% | | Bile leakage | 7.8% | 8.9% | 0.69 | Arterial complication | 4 (1.7%) | 4 (2%) | 0.85 | Portal complication | 1 (0.5%) | 2 (1%) | 0.60 | Primary nonfunction | 1 (0.4%) | 3 (1.5%) | 0.34 | Early allograft dysfunction (%) | 20.4% | 17.7% | 0.47 | Acute rejection first month (%) (biopsy-proven) | 17% | 16.7% | 0.95 |
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HTK: histidine tryptophan ketoglutarate; UW: the University of Wisconsin; n: number . , n (%). |