Encephalopathy in the patients subject to orthotopic liver transplantation: report of 128 cases / 中华器官移植杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the related factors of encephalopathy following orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT).Methods The clinical data of 128 patients who underwent liver transplantation consecutively between October 2001 and October 2003 were analyzed retrospectively by SPSS 10.0 . All clinical factors were analyzed by Crosstabs or independent-samples t test. A mutivariative analysis of these significant factors was done by using the Binary Logistic Regression.Results Encephalopathy occurred in 21 cases within the first week after operation, including 19 cases of Child-pugh C and 2 cases of Child-pugh B. There was a higher occurrence in the patients with chronic severe hepatitis or undergoing re-transplantation ( P 0.05 ). In the encephalopathy group the incidence of renal failure after transplantation and infection pre- or postoperation was higher than in control group ( P