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Outcome of liver transplant patients at the University Hospital Centre Zagreb

  • ANA VUJAKLIJA BRAJKOVIĆ1
  • JAKŠA BABEL1
  • VESNA VEGAR2
  • MARINA PREMUŽIĆ3
  • DAVOR RADIĆ3
  • VLADIMIR GAŠPAROVIĆ1

1Department of Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Centre Rebro, Kispaticeva 12, Zagreb 10 000, Croatia

2Department of Anaesthesiology, Reanimatology and Intensive Care, University Hospital Centre Rebro, Kispaticeva 12, Zagreb 10 000, Croatia

3Department of Gastroenterology, University Hospital Centre Rebro, Kispaticeva 12, Zagreb 10 000, Croatia

DOI: 10.22514/SV101.062015.12 Vol.10,Issue S1,June 2015 pp.47-49

Published: 22 June 2015

*Corresponding Author(s): ANA VUJAKLIJA BRAJKOVIĆ E-mail: avujaklija@gmail.com

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Abstract

At the University Hospital Centre Zagreb, 37 patients underwent liver transplanta-tion in the period from 2010 to 2014. Six patients had fatal complications in the ear-ly post-transplantation period and deceas-es in the surgical intensive care unit (ICU). All other patients (31) were transferred to the medical ICU and later to the medical ward. The most common indications for liver transplantation were alcoholic liver disease (9 patients) and hepatitis C (8 pa-tients). Two-thirds of the patients were male (67.7%) with an average age of 51 years. Thirty patients were discharged alive from the hospital. Infections developed in nine patients, mostly pneumonia and peritonitis. Only one patient experienced infection caused by multi-drug resistant bacteria, namely peritonitis due to me-thicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). All infections were successfully treated with antibiotics and none of them caused graft rejection.

Keywords

liver transplantation, infection, outcome assessment

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ANA VUJAKLIJA BRAJKOVIĆ,JAKŠA BABEL,VESNA VEGAR,MARINA PREMUŽIĆ,DAVOR RADIĆ,VLADIMIR GAŠPAROVIĆ. Outcome of liver transplant patients at the University Hospital Centre Zagreb. Signa Vitae. 2015. 10(S1);47-49.

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