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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2020

Mortality on the UNOS Waitlist for Patients with Autoimmune Liver Disease.

Jaspreet S Suri, Christopher J Danford, Vilas Patwardhan, Alan Bonder

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Post-Transplant Immunosuppression in Autoimmune Liver Disease.Journal of clinical and experimental hepatology
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jaspreet S SuriLiver Center, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Christopher J DanfordLiver Center, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Vilas PatwardhanLiver Center, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Alan BonderLiver Center, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundOutcomes on the liver transplant waitlist can vary by etiology. Our aim is to investigate differences in waitlist mortality of autoimmune hepatitis (AIH), primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), and primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) using the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) database.

methodsWe identified patients who were listed for liver transplantation from 1987 to 2016 with a primary diagnosis of AIH, PBC, or PSC. We excluded patients with overlap syndromes, acute hepatic necrosis, missing data, and those who were children. The primary outcome was death or removal from the waitlist due to clinical deterioration. We compared waitlist survival using competing risk analysis.

resultsBetween 1987 and 2016, there were 7412 patients listed for liver transplant due to AIH, 8119 for PBC, and 10,901 for PSC. Patients with AIH were younger, more likely to be diabetic, and had higher listing model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) scores compared to PBC and PSC patients. Patients with PBC and AIH were more likely to be removed from the waitlist due to death or clinical deterioration. On competing risk analysis, AIH patients had a similar risk of being removed from the waitlist compared to those with PBC (subdistribution hazard ratio (SHR) 0.94, 95% CI 0.85-1.03) and higher risk of removal compared to those with PSC (SHR 0.8, 95% CI 0.72 to 0.89).

conclusionAutoimmune hepatitis carries a similar risk of waitlist removal to PBC and a higher risk than PSC. The etiology of this disparity is not entirely clear and deserves further investigation.

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autoimmune hepatitisautoimmune liver diseaseliver transplantmortalityprimary biliary cholangitisprimary sclerosing cholangitiswaitlist

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PMID31979326
PMCPMC7074547
OpenAlexW3000964727

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