Impact of biliary complications on quality of life in live-donor liver transplant recipients

Table 4 Comparison of health-related quality-of-life scores between patients and controls

HRQoL domain	Patients (n = 25)	Controls (n = 25)	P value1
Physical functioning	50 (50-75)	100 (100-100)	< 0.001
Role physical	50 (31.3-75)	100 (87.5-100)	< 0.001
Bodily pain	50 (50-75)	100 (100-100)	< 0.001
General health	60 (60-85)	85 (85-85)	< 0.001
Vitality	50 (25-50)	75 (75-87.5)	< 0.001
Social functioning	50 (50-50)	75 (75-100)	< 0.001
Role emotion	50.0 (37.5-75)	87.5 (75-100)	< 0.001
Mental health	50 (50-62.5)	87.5 (75-87.5)	< 0.001
PCS	44.8 (41.7-52.9)	57.8 (55.2-59)	< 0.001
MCS	42 (35.6-45.2)	52.9 (50.2-57.9)	< 0.001

¹Wilcoxon signed ranks test.

Data are shown as median and interquartile range; Patients: Live donor liver transplant recipients with biliary complications; Controls: Live donor liver transplant recipients without biliary complications; HRQoL: Health-related quality-of-life; MCS: Mental component summary score; PCS: Physical component summary score.