Comorbidity Burden May Be Associated with Increased Mortality in Patients with Severe Acute Liver Injury Referred for Liver Transplantation

Lindsey Steiner-Temnykh; Lara Dakhoul; James Slaven; Lauren Nephew; Kavish R. Patidar; Eric Orman; Archita P. Desai; Eduardo Vilar-Gomez; Chandrashekhar Kubal; Burcin Ekser; Naga Chalasani; Marwan Ghabril

doi:10.12659/AOT.926453

03 November 2020 : Original article

Comorbidity Burden May Be Associated with Increased Mortality in Patients with Severe Acute Liver Injury Referred for Liver Transplantation

Lindsey Steiner-Temnykh^1ABCDEF, Lara Dakhoul^2ABCDEF, James Slaven^3ACDE, Lauren Nephew^2BCDEF, Kavish R. Patidar^2BCDEF, Eric Orman^2BCDEF, Archita P. Desai^2BCDEF, Eduardo Vilar-Gomez^2BCDEF, Chandrashekhar Kubal^4BCDEF, Burcin Ekser^4BCDEF, Naga Chalasani^2ABCDEF, Marwan Ghabril^2ABCDEF*

DOI: 10.12659/AOT.926453

Ann Transplant 2020; 25:e926453

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Table 2 Underlying liver disease in patients surviving hospitalization vs. dying or undergoing liver transplantation within 30 days of hospitalization for acute liver injury. Data are shown as number (percentage).

	All patientsN=18	Hospitalization or 30-day survivorn=7	Died or transplant within 30 daysn=11	P-value

Alcohol	6 (33)	5 (71)	1 (9)	0.04
Viral	7 (39)	2 (29)	5 (45)
Autoimmune	3 (17)	None	3 (27)
Fatty liver	None	None	None
Other	2 (11)	None	2 (18)

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