POOR OUTCOME IN PATIENTS WITH DIABETES MELLITUS UNDERGOING LIVER TRANSPLANTATION.
- 1 August 1999
- journal article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Transplantation
- Vol. 68 (4) , 530-535
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00007890-199908270-00015
Abstract
Relatively few studies have examined the influence of pretransplant diabetes on survival after an orthotopic liver transplant (OLT), and those published to date show only minor increases in infection rates among diabetics and no increase in mortality. We examined the effect of diabetes mellitus on survival after OLT. 1005 adults underwent OLT between 1982 and May 1997. Seventy-eight patients with pretransplant diabetes mellitus (7.8% of all OLT, 38 insulin treated, 25 tablet treated, 15 diet controlled) were identified and compared with controls matched for age, sex, and date of first transplant and also with all nondiabetic adult liver recipients undergoing OLT during the same period. In patients undergoing OLT survival was worse in diabetics than in the comparison group (P=0.002) and vs. all adult nondiabetics undergoing (n=927) (P=0.004); in diabetics with alcoholic liver disease (ALD) vs. all nondiabetics with alcoholic liver disease (P=<0.0001); and in insulin-treated compared with non-insulin-treated diabetics (P=0.05). Multivariate analysis showed type of diabetes (P=0.001) and ALD (P=0.024) to be the most significant independent variables adversely affecting survival. Survival in diabetics undergoing OLT could be further stratified according to whether diabetics were insulin treated. Poorer outcome in the diabetics undergoing OLT, particularly in those with ALD, suggests the need for a more detailed pre-OLT assessment of these patients, particularly those with insulin and tablet controlled diabetes.Keywords
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