Impact of comorbidity on waiting list and post-transplant outcomes in patients undergoing liver retransplantation

Table 1 Baseline characteristics for patients who had primary liver transplantation and those who had liver retransplantation

Variables	PLT (n = 1090)	LRT (n = 150)	P value
Demographic
Age	54 (18-82)	46 (18-72)	< 0.001
Gender (male, %)	736 (67.5)	80 (53.3)	0.001
Etiology
ALD (%)	345 (31.7)	18 (12.0)	< 0.001
Viral (%)	303 (27.8)	50 (33.3)	0.159
Cholestatic and autoimmune (%)	227 (20.8)	34 (22.7)	0.604
Clinical
Na, mmol/L	135 (116-151)	138 (118-150)	< 0.001
Creatinine, mg/dL	1.0 (0.4-6.8)	1.3 (0.7-8.3)	< 0.001
Bilirubin, mg/dL	2.7 (0.2-68.4)	4.7 (0.4-56.3)	< 0.001
INR	1.3 (0.8-5.0)	1.2 (0.8-13.0)	0.078
MELD	14 (6-40)	20 (6-40)	< 0.001
UKELD	55 (43-77)	56 (44-79)	0.041
Ascites (%)	669 (62.9)	38 (25.5)	< 0.001
Encephalopathy (%)	350 (33.0)	52 (34.9)	0.637

ALD: Alcohol-related liver disease; INR: International normalised ratio; MELD: Model for end-stage liver disease; UKELD: United Kingdom end-stage liver disease model; PLT: Primary liver transplantation; LRT: Liver retransplantation.