title: Post-operative complications requiring hospitalization more than one yr after living donor liver transplantation.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The long-term outcomes after living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) have not been clearly established. This retrospective study assessed long-term outcomes after LDLT through reviewing complications requiring hospitalization more than one yr after engraftment.
  
  
  METHODS
  Sixty-five LDLT recipients alive more than one yr post-transplantation were enrolled, 37 males and 28 females, with a median age at transplantation of 53 yr (range, 0-68 yr). We reviewed all post-operative complications requiring hospitalization more than one yr after LDLT.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There were 61 post-operative complications requiring hospitalization in 43 of the 65 patients (66%), and the majority of these complications were transplantation related (59/61; 97%). Despite this, 43 (78%) of 55 surviving patients had normal liver function at their last follow-up, and 50 patients (91%) achieved normal activity (Karnofsky score 100%).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  More than one-half of our LDLT recipients required hospitalization more than one yr post-LDLT to treat a complication. Most were able to maintain their quality of life and liver function with appropriate treatment.
authors: Department of Surgery, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan.
authors: Mitsuhisa
authors: M
authors: Takatsuki
authors: Akihiko
authors: A
authors: Soyama
authors: Izumi
authors: I
authors: Muraoka
authors: Takanobu
authors: T
authors: Hara
authors: Ayaka
authors: A
authors: Kinoshita
authors: Izumi
authors: I
authors: Yamaguchi
authors: Takayuki
authors: T
authors: Tanaka
authors: Tamotsu
authors: T
authors: Kuroki
authors: Susumu
authors: S
authors: Eguchi
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D017093:Liver Failure / Q000601:surgery; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D019520:Living Donors; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D013997:Time Factors; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: liver transplantation; living donor