Open AccessInfluence of postoperative complications on long-term survival in liver transplant patients
Author(s) -
Sonia Castanedo,
Enrique de la Garza Toledo,
Roberto Fernández-Santiago,
Federico Castillo,
Juan Echeverri,
Juan Carlos RodríguezSanjuán
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
world journal of gastrointestinal surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1948-9366
DOI - 10.4240/wjgs.v12.i8.336
Subject(s) - medicine , receiver operating characteristic , proportional hazards model , retrospective cohort study , surgery , survival analysis , mann–whitney u test , liver transplantation , youden's j statistic , esophagectomy , log rank test , complication , comorbidity , cohort , transplantation , cancer , esophageal cancer
Liver transplant (LT) is a complex procedure with frequent postoperative complications. In other surgical procedures such as gastrectomy, esophagectomy or resection of liver metastases, these complications are associated with poorer long-term survival. It is possible this happens in LT but there are not enough data to establish this relationship.