Arterial vs venous conduits for hepatic artery bypass in pediatric living donor liver transplantation: A retrospective study

Table 5 Perioperative and postoperative outcome comparisons between two groups, n (%)/median (interquartile range)

Characteristics	GSV conduit group (n = 34)	Arterial conduit group (n = 33)	P value
Perioperative
Blood loss (mL)	300 (50-4000)	500 (100-8000)	0.447
Transfusion volume (mL)	438 (0-4300)	675 (0-8000)	0.198
Operation duration (hours)	9.1 (6.0-18.0)	8.5 (6.0-16.0)	0.131
PV-HART (minutes)	75 (34-125)	59 (18-130)	0.088
APT (minutes)	85 (55-154)	84 (52-137)	0.215
CIT (minutes)	213 (80-525)	249 (126-486)	0.268
WIT (minutes)	4 (3-5)	4 (3-6)	0.432
Postoperative
≥ CDC III	18 (52.9)	14 (42.4)	0.389
PVT, n	0	1	0.493
Mean (95%CI)	0	0.030 (-0.031 to 0.092)
PGN, n	6	4	0.386
Mean (95%CI)	0.176 (0.041-0.311)	0.121 (0.004-0.239)
HAT, n	2	1	0.511
Mean (95%CI)	0.059 (-0.025 to 0.142)	0.030 (-0.031 to 0.092)
HA patency time, days, mean (95%CI)	2668 (2444-2892)	3020 (2838-3202)	0.567
Graft loss, n	7	5	0.562
Mean (95%CI)	0.206 (0.063-0.349)	0.152 (0.022-0.281)
Graft survival time, months, mean (95%CI)	73.9 (60.2-87.7)	88.2 (75.5-100.8)	0.689
Death, n	6	4	0.386
Mean (95%CI)	0.176 (0.041-0.311)	0.121 (0.004-0.239)
Overall survival time, months, mean (95%CI)	78.1 (66.2-90.0)	91.3 (79.8-102.8)	0.549
Hospital stays	25.0 (5.0-127.0)	27.0 (2.0-58.0)	0.532
HA patency			0.567
1-day	32 (94.1)	33 (100.0)
7-day	32 (94.1)	32 (97.0)
1-year	32 (94.1)	32 (97.0)

APT: Anhepatic phase time; CDC: Clavien-Dindo classification; CIT: Cold ischemia time; GSV: Great saphenous vein; HA: Hepatic artery; HAT: Hepatic artery thrombosis; PGN: Primary graft nonfunction; PV-HART: Portal vein-hepatic artery reperfusion time; PVT: Portal vein thrombosis; WIT: Warm ischemia time.