• The Institute of Liver Transplantation, General Hospital of Chinese People’s Armed Police Forces, Beijing 100039, China;
ZANG Yunjin, Email: zangyunjin@gmail.com
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Objective  To summary the clinical experience of liver retransplantation (RLT), and to improve the effect.
Methods  The clinical data of 62 cases who had received RLT in our institute from Jan. 2003 to Jun. 2012 were analyzed retrospectively. The survival rates of patients with different interval between two liver transplantation (LT) were calculated, and the data of patients who died and survived during perioperative period after operation were compared and analyzed.
Results  The 1-, 2-, and 5-year cumulative survival rates of 62 patients were 67.7%, 59.7%, and 56.4%, of early stage RLT patients were 38.5%, 38.5%, and 30.8%, of later stage RLT patients were 75.5%, 65.3%, and 63.3%, respectively. There were 28 patients died after operation, and 20 patients (71.4%) died during perioperative period, whose major cause of death were infection (65.0%, 13/20), in addition, 4 cases (20.0%) died of multiple organ failure, 2 cased (10.0%) died of hepatic artery complication, 1 case (5.0%) died of portal vein complication. Eight cases (28.6%) died after perioperative period in reason of tumor recurrence. The model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) score 〔(26.95±9.28) score vs. (14.23±9.06) score〕, creatinine (Cr) level 〔(157.3±88.0) μmol/L vs.(69.8±35.9) μmol/L〕, international normalized ratio (INR) value 〔(1.676±0.744) vs.(1.124±0.286)〕, and total bilirubin (TBiL) value 〔431.8 μmol/L vs. 248.2 μmol/L〕 of patients died during perioperative period were higher than that of patients survived after perioperative period (P<0.05). The ratio of abnormal Cr of patients died during perioperative
period and survived after perioperative period were 60.0% (12/20) and 7.1% (3/42), respectively. The 34 patients who had survived after perioperative period were all got followed-up for 3-104 months (average 49 months). There were no tumor recurrence during the followed-up, and liver function of them were normal.
Conclusions  RLT is an effective method for irreversible graft failure after LT. Optimum operative time and reasonable individual immunosuppressive regimen to decrease the infection rate are all contribute to the increase of the survival rate.

Citation: WU Fengdong,ZANG Yunjin,SHEN Zhongyang,.. Analysis of Liver Retransplantation in 62 Cases. CHINESE JOURNAL OF BASES AND CLINICS IN GENERAL SURGERY, 2013, 20(3): 246-250. doi: Copy

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