Liver transplantation for alcoholic liver disease

Table 5 Post-orthotopic liver transplantation events-rejection, infection, malignancy, retransplantation and cardiac events

Study	Rejection (%)		Infection (%)		Malignancy (%)		Retransplantation (%)		Cardiac events (%)
	ALD	Non-ALD	ALD	Non-ALD	ALD	Non-ALD	ALD	Non-ALD	ALD + viral	Non-ALD
Burra et al[76]	7.6	10.1	15.5	17.6	13.7/5.41	5.6/21			8	5.3
Pfitzmann et al[5]			4.7-6.32		9.4-18.8/3.82				3-11.82
Wiesner et al[83]	Significantly less in ALD vs non-ALD		Bacteremia, overall fungemia, and CMV infection, comparable		De-novo tumors significantly increased in ALD vs non-ALD		3	9
Bhagat et al[84]	23/23	41/43	432	53	292	0	3.6	5.6	72	26

¹De-novo tumors/upper aerodigestive tract tumors;

²Cause of death;

³Acute/chronic rejection. ALD: Alcoholic liver disease.