Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis prevalence in pre-transplant patients and its effect on survival and graft loss post-transplant

Table 1 Population characteristics

Population characteristic	History of pre-transplant SBP (n = 1966)	No history of SBP (n = 45914)	P-value
Recipient age, yr	50.51 (49.96-51.07)	47.97 (47.81-48.13)	< 0.0001
Donor age, yr	38.08 (38.84-39.61)	38.29 (38.12-38.46)	0.165
MELD score at transplant	25.28 (24.83-25.74)	20.34 (20.25-20.44)	< 0.0001
Male	1429 (72.69)	29950 (65.23)	< 0.0001
Ethnicity African American	149 (7.58)	4591 (10.00)	0.027
Etiology of recipient liver disease			< 0.0001
Alcohol alone	318 (16.17)	4621 (10.06)
Autoimmune	64 (3.26)	1149 (2.50)
Cholestatic disease	113 (5.75)	3337 (7.27)
Hepatitis B	69 (3.51)	1014 (2.21)
Hepatitis C	809 (41.15)	13557 (29.53)
Liver malignancy	126 (6.41)	6435 (14.02)
NASH/cryptogenic	175 (8.90)	4214 (9.18)
Other	292 (14.85)	11587 (25.24)
Liver retransplantation	145 (7.38)	3711 (8.08)	0.259

Categorical variables are expressed as number and column percent. Continuous variables are expressed as mean and 95%CIs unless otherwise specified. SBP: Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis; MELD: Model for End Stage Liver Disease; NASH: Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis.