ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: MELD allocation system has changed the clinical consequences on waiting list (WL) for LT, but its impact on mortality has been seldom studied. We aimed to assess the ability of MELD and other prognostic scores to predict mortality after LT. METHODS: 301 consecutive patients enlisted for LT were included, and prioritized within WL by using the MELD-score according to: hepatic insufficiency (HI), refractory ascites (RA) and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The analysis was performed to predict early mortality after LT (8 weeks). RESULTS: Patients were enlisted as HI (44.9%), RA (19.3%) and HCC (35.9%). The major aetiologies of liver disease were HCV (45.5%). Ninety-four patients (31.3%) were excluded from WL, with no differences among the three groups (p = 0.23). The remaining 207 patients (68.7%) underwent LT, being HI the most frequent indication (42.5%). HI patients had the shortest length within WL (113.6 days vs 215.8 and 308.9 respectively; p<0.001), but the highest early post-LT mortality rates (18.2% vs 6.8% and 6.7% respectively; p<0.001). The independent predictors of early post-LT mortality in the HI group were higher bilirubin (OR = 1.08; p = 0.038), increased iMELD (OR = 1.06; p = 0.046) and non-alcoholic cirrhosis (OR = 4.13; p = 0.017). Among the prognostic scores the iMELD had the best predictive accuracy (AUC = 0.66), which was strengthened in non-alcoholic cirrhosis (AUC = 0.77). CONCLUSION: Patients enlisted due to HI had the highest early post-LT mortality rates despite of the shortest length within WL. The iMELD had the best accuracy to predict early post-LT mortality in patients with HI, and thus it may benefit the WL management.
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Liver Transplantation/mortality , Waiting Lists , Adult , Aged , Ascites/mortality , Ascites/therapy , Carcinoma, Hepatocellular/mortality , Carcinoma, Hepatocellular/therapy , Female , Hepatic Insufficiency/mortality , Hepatic Insufficiency/therapy , Humans , Liver Cirrhosis/mortality , Liver Cirrhosis/therapy , Liver Neoplasms/mortality , Liver Neoplasms/therapy , Male , Middle Aged , Severity of Illness Index , Tissue and Organ Procurement/organization & administrationABSTRACT
Los síntomas que con mayor frecuencia aparecen en el cáncer de páncreas son el dolor abdominal, la pérdida de peso o la ictericia. La hemorragia digestiva alta por rotura de varices gástricas es una entidad mucho menos prevalente en estos pacientes. Este hallazgo requiere descartar siempre la presencia de trombosis de la vena esplénica. Presentamos el caso de un varón joven que acude a urgencias por hematemesis en el que las pruebas diagnósticas acabaron dilucidando un linfoma pancreático primario (LPP) que provocó trombosis de la vena esplénica, circulación colateral y varices gástricas aisladas sangrantes. Hasta hoy no hemos encontrado en la literatura médica ningún LPP que se exprese inicialmente de este modo. Finalmente realizamos una revisión de la literatura médica e incidimos en la importancia de descartar la trombosis de la vena esplénica en pacientes con varices gástricas aisladas y unas nociones acerca del diagnóstico y tratamiento del LPP (AU)
In patients with pancreatic cancer, the most frequent symptoms are abdominal pain, weight loss and jaundice. Upper gastrointestinal bleeding produced by gastric varices is a rare entity in these patients and requires the presence of splenic vein thrombosis (SVT) to be excluded. We describe the case of a young man who presented to the emergency department with hematemesis. Diagnostic tests revealed primary pancreatic lymphoma (PPL), which provoked splenic vein thrombosis, collateral circulation and the formation of isolated bleeding gastric varices. To date, we have found no reports in the literature of PPL with this form of presentation. Finally, we review the literature, with emphasis on the importance of excluding splenic vein thrombosis in patients with isolated gastric varices, and discuss certain features of the diagnosis and treatment of PPL (AU)
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Humans , Male , Adult , Esophageal and Gastric Varices/etiology , Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage/etiology , Lymphoma, Large-Cell, Anaplastic/complications , Pancreatic Neoplasms/complications , Splenic Vein , Venous Thrombosis/etiology , Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/etiology , Hematemesis/etiology , Lymph Nodes/pathology , Lymphoma, Large-Cell, Anaplastic , Melena/etiology , Neoplasm Invasiveness , Lymphoma, Large-Cell, Anaplastic/diagnosisABSTRACT
In patients with pancreatic cancer, the most frequent symptoms are abdominal pain, weight loss and jaundice. Upper gastrointestinal bleeding produced by gastric varices is a rare entity in these patients and requires the presence of splenic vein thrombosis (SVT) to be excluded. We describe the case of a young man who presented to the emergency department with hematemesis. Diagnostic tests revealed primary pancreatic lymphoma (PPL), which provoked splenic vein thrombosis, collateral circulation and the formation of isolated bleeding gastric varices. To date, we have found no reports in the literature of PPL with this form of presentation. Finally, we review the literature, with emphasis on the importance of excluding splenic vein thrombosis in patients with isolated gastric varices, and discuss certain features of the diagnosis and treatment of PPL.
