09 October 2020 : Original article
Importance of Intraoperative Transfusions of Packed Red Blood Cells and Fresh Frozen Plasma in Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Cancer
Łukasz Masior12ABDEF*, Michał Grąt1BCD, Karolina Grąt3B, Maciej Krasnodębski1BF, Karolina M. Wronka4B, Jan Stypułkowski1B, Waldemar Patkowski1B, Mariusz Frączek2B, Marek Krawczyk1BD, Krzysztof Zieniewicz1BDDOI: 10.12659/AOT.923665
Ann Transplant 2020; 25:e923665
Table 1 Characteristics of the study cohort.
| Median (range) or n (%) | |
|---|---|
| Recipient age (years) | 57 (20–71) |
| Recipient sex (male) | 150 (65.5%) |
| Donor age (years) | 50 (15–70) |
| Donor sex (male) | 150 (65.5%) |
| HBV | 95 (41.5%) |
| ALD | 38 (16.6%) |
| HCV | 162 (70.7%) |
| MELD | 11 (6–40) |
| Blood transfusion (units) | 3 (0–48) |
| Plasma transfusion (units) | 6 (0–50) |
| Pre-transplant AFP (ng/ml) | 15.8 (0.7–43337.0) |
| Number of tumors | 1.0 (1.0–10.0) |
| Size of the largest tumor (mm) | 30 (3–140) |
| TTV (cm) | 22.5 (0.02–5277.9) |
| Neoadjuvant treatment | 100 (43.7%) |
| TACE | 77 (33.6%) |
| Previous resection | 13 (5.7%) |
| Local tumor ablation | 40 (17.5%) |
| Microvascular invasion* | 65 (28.4%) |
| Macrovascular invasion* | 8 (3.5%) |
| Grading | |
| Unknown | 48 (21.0%) |
| G1 | 14 (6.1%) |
| G2 | 143 (62.4%) |
| G3 | 24 (10.5%) |
| Milan criteria | 135 (59.0%) |
| Up-to-7 criteria | 172 (75.1%) |
| UCSF criteria | 162 (70.7%) |
| Bilirubin (mg/dl) | 1.3 (0.3–43.4) |
| INR | 1.2 (0.8–3.0) |
| Technique of transplantation (piggy-back) | 198 (86.5%) |
| Total ischemic time (minutes) | 545 (240–910) |
| Data are presented as median (range) or n (%). * Refers to group of 224 patients. | |