Characteristics of the adult recipients of an elective first liver transplant in the linked UK Liver Transplant Audit database and Hospital Episode Statistics
| Characteristic | Value | Missing (N) |
|---|---|---|
| Number | 3837 | |
| Age (year) | 53 (46–60) | 0 |
| Sex (%) | 0 | |
| Male | 2400 (62.6) | |
| Female | 1437 (37.5) | |
| Ethnicity (%) | 0 | |
| White | 3350 (87.3) | |
| Asian | 361 (9.4) | |
| Black | 89 (2.3) | |
| Other | 37 (1.0) | |
| BMI (kg/m2) | 25.6 (22.7–29.1) | 215 |
| Primary liver disease (%) | 0 | |
| Cancer | 662 (17.3) | |
| Hepatitis C cirrhosis | 462 (12.0) | |
| Primary sclerosing cholangitis | 410 (10.7) | |
| Hepatitis B cirrhosis | 107 (2.8) | |
| Primary biliary cirrhosis | 576 (15.0) | |
| Alcoholic cirrhosis | 867 (22.5) | |
| Autoimmune and cryptogenic cirrhosis | 391 (10.2) | |
| Metabolic liver disease | 132 (3.4) | |
| Other liver disease | 233 (6.1) | |
| Era of liver transplantation (%) | 0 | |
| April 1997–September 2000 | 922 (24.0) | |
| October 2000–September 2003 | 882 (23.0) | |
| October 2003–September 2006 | 915 (23.9) | |
| October 2006–March 2010 | 1118 (29.1) | |
| Pretransplant mechanical ventilation (%) | 23 (0.6) | 1 |
| Previous abdominal surgery (%) | 598 (15.6) | 7 |
| Bilirubin (µmol/L) | 46 (24–95) | 19 |
| Creatinine (µmol/L) | 87 (73–104) | 2 |
| INR | 1.3 (1.2–1.6) | 145 |
| Sodium (mmol/L) | 137 (134–139) | 9 |
| Donor type (%) | 0 | |
| Donor after brain death | 3624 (94.4) | |
| Donor after cardiac death | 213 (5.6) | |
| Graft type (%) | 0 | |
| Whole | 3568 (93.0) | |
| Segmental | 269 (7.0) | |
| Graft appearance (%) | 313 | |
| Healthy | 2834 (80.4) | |
| Suboptimal | 690 (19.6) |
Results are numbers (percentages) or medians (IQRs).
BMI, body mass index; INR, international normalised ratio.