Liver transplantation for alcoholic liver disease

Table 6 Comparison of outcomes of patients with alcoholic liver disease post-orthotopic liver transplantation

Study	Time period	Number of patients	Survival (%)				Relapse (%) any (abusive)	Death due to relapse (%)
			1-yr	3-yr	5-yr	10-yr
Burra et al[76]	1988-2005	ALD-9880	84	78	73	58	33 (11)	4.3
		ALD + HCV-1119	84	75	65	52		18.3
		ALD + HBV-309	89	85	81	64
		Cryptogenic-2410	78	73	69	61
Bhagat et al[84]	1997-2007	ALD-83	92	86	86	761
		NASH-71	82	79	75	621
Gedaly et al[22]	1995-2007	ALD-147	96.2	89.6	84.4		19
Pfitzmann et al[5]	1989-2002	ALD-300	96		88	76	19 (8)	4.8
		Non-ALD	97		80	72
OPTN/SRTR 2006[113]	1996-2005	All causes of cirrhosis	86.9		82.4
Lim et al[101]	1988-1997	ALD-3063	81.9	73.9	67.9		13
		Viral hepatitis-4267	80.3	71.7	65.3
Bellamy et al[82]		ALD-123	84		72	632	10
Mackie et al[110]	1996-1999	ALD-64	82	823			45.6 (6.5)
		Non-ALD-335	83	823
Gerhardt et al[114]	1985-1991	ALD-67	90	844	824	764	26 (4.8)	4.5
Lucey et al[15]	1985-1989	ALD-45	78	733			4.4
		Non-ALD-111	70	653
Kumar et al[115]	1982-1988	ALD-73	74				11.5	2
		Non-ALD	67

¹9 yr survival;

²7 yr survival;

³2 yr survival;

⁴2-yr, 3-yr and 4-yr survival. HCV: Hepatitis C virus; HBV: Hepatitis B virus; ALD: Alcoholic liver disease.