Liver transplantation at the extremes of the body mass index

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 968-977

  Dick, André A S ^a   Spitzer, Austin L ^a   Seifert, Catherine F ^a   Deckert, Alysun ^a   Carithers Jr , Robert L ^b   Reyes, Jorge D ^a   Perkins, James D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN;

ADULT; AGE; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLEEDING; BODY MASS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION; ISCHEMIA; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; OBESITY; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETRANSPLANTATION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL RATE; UNDERWEIGHT;

EID: 69949085887     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21785     Document Type: Review

References (31)

1. Thuluvath PJ. Morbid obesity with one or more other serious comorbidities should be a contraindication for liver transplantation. Liver Transpl 2007;13:1627-1629.
2. Pelletier SJ, Schaubel DE, Wei G, Englesbe MJ, Punch JD, Wolfe RA, et al. Effect of body mass index on the survival benefit of liver transplantation. Liver Transpl 2007;13: 1678-1683.
3. Sawyer RG, Pelletier SJ, Pruett TL. Increased early morbidity and mortality with acceptable long-term function in severely obese patients undergoing liver transplantation. Clin Transplant 1999;13:126-130.
4. World Health Organization. Global database on body mass index. Available at: http://www.who.int/bmi/index.jsp?intropage=intro3_html. Accessed September 2008.
5. Flegal KM, Carroll MD, Ogden CL, Johnson CL. Prevalence and trends in obesity among US adults, 1999-2000. JAMA 2002;288:1723-1727.
6. Flegal KM, Carroll MD, Kuczmarski RJ, Johnson CL. Overweight and obesity in the United States: prevalence and trends, 1960-1994. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 1998; 22:39-47.
7. Fujikawa T, Fujita S, Mizuno S, Shenkman E, Vogel B, Lipori P, et al. Clinical and financial impact of obesity on the outcome of liver transplantation. Transplant Proc 2006;38:3612-3614.
8. Nair S, Verma S, Thuluvath PJ. Obesity and its effects on survival in patients undergoing orthotopic liver transplantation in the United States. Hepatology 2002;35:105-109.
9. Meier-Kriesche H, Arndorfer JA, Kaplan B. The impact of body mass index on renal transplant outcomes: a significant independent risk factor for graft failure and patient death. Transplantation 2002;73:70-74.
10. Bumgardner GL, Henry ML, Elkhammas E, Wilson GA, Tso P, Davies E, et al. Obesity as a risk factor after combined pancreas/kidney transplantation. Transplantation 1995;60:1426-1430.
11. Grady KL, Naftel D, Pamboukian SV, Frazier OH, Hauptman P, Herre J, et al. Post-operative obesity and cachexia are risk factors for morbidity and mortality after heart transplant: multi-institutional study of post-operative weight change. J Heart Lung Transplant 2005;24:1424-1430.
12. Holley JL, Shapiro R, Lopatin WB, Tzakis AG, Hakala TR, Starzl TE. Obesity as a risk factor following cadaveric renal transplantation. Transplantation 1990;49:387-389.
13. Rossano JW, Grenier MA, Dreyer WJ, Kim JJ, Price JF, Jefferies JL, et al. Effect of body mass index on outcome in pediatric heart transplant patients. J Heart Lung Transplant 2007;26:718-723.
14. Rahmanian PB, Adams DH, Castillo JG, Chikwe J, Bodian CA, Filsoufi F. Impact of body mass index on early outcome and late survival in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting or valve surgery or both. Am J Cardiol 2007;100:1702-1708.
15. Mullen JT, Davenport DL, Hutter MM, Hosokawa PW, Henderson WG, Khuri SF, Moorman DW. Impact of body mass index on perioperative outcomes in patients undergoing major intra-abdominal cancer surgery. Ann Surg Oncol 2008;15:2164-2172.
16. Lietz K, John R, Burke EA, Ankersmit JH, McCue JD, Naka Y, et al. Pretransplant cachexia and morbid obesity are predictors of increased mortality after heart transplantation. Transplantation 2001;72:277-283.
17. Cox DR. Regression models and life-tables. J R Stat Soc B 1972;34:187-220.
18. Clinical Guidelines on the Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults: The Evidence Report. Bethesda, MD: National Institutes of Health; 1998. NIH publication 98-4083.
19. Campsen J, Zimmerman M, Shoen J, Wachs M, Bak T, Mandell MS, Kam I. Adjustable gastric banding in a morbidly obese patient during liver transplantation. Obes Surg 2008;18:1625-1627.
20. Butte JM, Devaud N, Jarufe NP, Boza C, Peérez G, Torres J, et al. Sleeve gastrectomy as treatment for severe obesity after orthotopic liver transplantation. Obes Surg 2007;17: 1517-1519.
21. Sullivan PW, Ghushchyan V, Wyatt HR, Hill JO. The medical cost of cardiometabolic risk factor clusters in the United States. Obesity (Silver Spring) 2007;15:3150-3158.
22. Moayyedi P. The epidemiology of obesity and gastrointestinal and other diseases: an overview. Dig Dis Sci 2008; 53:2293-2299.
23. Yoo HY, Thuluvath PJ. The effect of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus on outcome of liver transplantation. Transplantation 2002;74:1007-1012.
24. McCance K, Heuther S. Pathophysiology: The Biologic Basis for Disease in Adults & Children. 4th ed. St. Louis, MO: Mosby; 2002.
25. Leonard J, Heimbach JK, Malinchoc M, Watt K, Charlton M. The impact of obesity on long-term outcomes in liver transplant recipients-results of the NIDDK liver transplant database. Am J Transplant 2008;8:667-672.
26. Keefe EB, Gettys C, Esquivel CO. Liver transplantation in patients with severe obesity. Transplantation 1994;57: 309-311.
27. Kalaitzakis E, Simrén M, Olsson R, Henfridsson P, Hugosson I, Bengtsson M, Björnsson E. Gastrointestinal symptoms in patients with liver cirrhosis: associations with nutritional status and health-related quality of life. Scand J Gastroenterol 2006;41:1464-1472.
28. Selberg O, Böttcher J, Tusch G, Pichlmayr R, Henkel E, Müller MJ. Identification of high- and low-risk patients before liver transplantation: a prospective cohort study of nutritional and metabolic parameters in 150 patients. Hepatology 1997;25:652-657.
29. Funada S, Shimazu T, Kakizaki M, Kuriyama S, Sato Y, Matsuda-Ohmori K, et al. Body mass index and cardiovascular disease and mortality in Japan: the Ohsaki study. Prev Med 2008;47:66-70.
30. Chui R, Iso H, Toyoshima H, Date C, Yamamoto A, Kikuchi S, et al. Body mass index and mortality from cardiovascular disease among Japanese men and women: the JACC study. Stroke 2005;36:1377-1382.
31. Song YM, Sung J, Davey Smith G, Ebrahim, S. Body mass index and ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke: a prospective study in Korean men. Stroke 2004;35:831-836.