Donation after cardio-circulatory death liver transplantation

Table 4 Results of donation after cardio-circulatory death-liver transplantations in United Network for Organ Sharing data base registry

Authors and study period	Publication year	Patient number and Maastricht category	WIT (min)	CIT (h)	PNF (%)	Retransplantation (%)	Graft survival %			Patient survival %
							1 yr	3 yr	5 yr	1 yr	3 yr	5 yr
Abt et al[67] 1993-2001	2004	144 DCD	12.7	8.1	11.81	13.91	70.21	63.31	-	79.7	72.1	-
		26 856 DBD		8.9	6.41	8.31	80.41	72.11		85	77.4
Mateo et al[74] 1996-2003	2006	367 DCD	15.6	8.3	-	-	711	601	531	-	-	-
		33 111 DBD		8.4			801	721	651
Lee et al[32] 1996-2006	2006	874 DCD	15.4	7.9	-	-	72.11	61.81	38.81	82.31	75.91	65.31
		43 734 DBD		8.2			80.71	71.91	65.61	85.41	77.51	71.51
Doshi et al[68] 1998-2004	2007	345 DCD	-	8.2	6.41	13.01	75	65	-	83	77	-
		20 289 young-DBD		8.1	3.91	5.61	831	751		881	801
		3604 old-DBD		8.2	5.31		76	64		83	73
Merion et al[125] 2000-2004	2006	472 DCD	-	7.9	-	-	70.11	60.51	-	-	-	-
		23 598 DBD		8.1			831	751
Selck et al[69] 2002-2007	2008	855 DCD	-	-	-	21.61	73.81	57.61	-	-	-	-
		21 089 DBD				8.81	84.41	74.41
Mathur et al[127] 2001-2009	2010	1567 DCD	16.1	7.5	-	13.6	-	-	-	78	64.9	-

DCD: Donors after cardiac death; DBD: Donors after brain death; WIT: Warm ischemia time; CIT: Cold ischemia time; PNF: Primary non-function. Major symptomatic biliary complications include biliary leak, anastomotic and non-anastomotic stenosis.

¹Numbers denote the statistically significant difference between groups.