Impact of body mass index on graft failure and overall survival following liver transplant

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 634-637

  Rustgi, Vinod K ^a   Marino, Gustavo ^a   Rustgi, Sheila ^a   Halpern, Michael T ^b   Johnson, Lynt B ^a   Tolleris, Christine ^a   Taddei, Tamar H ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b EXPONENT INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Hepatic; Influence; Obesity; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

AGE; BODY MASS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BODY MASS INDEX; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 8644271820     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2004.00141.x     Document Type: Review

References (15)

1. Eckho DE, McGuire BM, Young CC et al. Race: a critical factor in organ donation, patient referral and selection, and orthotopic liver transplantation. Liver Transpl Surg 1998: 4: 499.
2. Brooks BK, Levy MF, Jennings LW et al. Influence of donor and recipient gender on the outcome of liver transplantation. Transplantation 1996: 62: 1784.
3. Emre S, Schwartz ME, Altaca G et al. Safe use of hepatic allografts from donors older than 70 years. Transplantation 1996: 62: 62.
4. Rustgi VK, Marino G, Halpern MT, Johnson LB, Umana WO, Tolleris C. Role of gender and race mismatch and graft failure in patients undergoing liver transplantation. Liver Transpl 2002: 8: 514.
5. Smith CM, Davies DB, McBride MA. Liver transplantation in the United States: a report from the UNOS Liver Transplant Registry. Clin Transpl 1999: 23.
6. Keck BM, Bennett LE, Rosendale J, Daily OP, Novick RJ, Hosenpud, JD. Worldwide thoracic organ transplantation: a report from the UNOS/ISHLT International Registry for Thoracic Organ Transplantation. Clin Transpl 1999: 35.
7. Belle SH, Beringer KC, Detre KM. Recent findings concerning liver transplantation in the United States. Clin Transpl 1996: 15.
8. Nair S, Cohen DB, Cohen MP, Tan H, Maley W, Thuluvath PJ. Postoperative morbidity, mortality, costs, and long-term survival in severely obese patients undergoing orthotopic liver transplantation. Am J Gastroenterol 2001: 96: 842.
9. Sawyer RG, Pelletier SJ, Pruett TL. Increased early morbidity and mortality with acceptable long-term function in severely obese patients undergoing liver transplantation. Clin Transpl 1999: 13: 126.
10. Nair S, Verma S, Thuluvath PJ. Obesity and its effect on survival in patients undergoing orthotopic liver transplantation in the United States. Hepatology 2002: 35: 105.
11. Braunfeld MY, Chan S, Pregler J et al. Liver transplantation in the morbidly obese. J Clin Anesth 1996: 8: 585.
12. Keee EB, Gettys C, Esquivel CO. Liver transplantation in patients with severe obesity. Transplantation 1994: 57: 309.
13. Madill J, Gutierrez C, Grossman J et al. Nutritional assessment of the lung transplant patient: body mass index as a predictor of 90-day mortality following transplantation. J Heart Lung Transplant 2001: 20: 288.
14. Selberg O, Bottcher J, Tusch G, Pichlmayr R, Henkel E, Muller 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.
15. Leaf DA, Kobashigawa J, Gleeson M, Laks H. Defining obesity in patients undergoing orthotopic heart transplantation: body mass index vs. percent body fat. J Heart Lung Transplant 1997: 16: 563.