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ArticleHepatology communications2019

Influence of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Preoperative Hemoglobin A1c Levels on Outcomes of Liver Transplantation.

Meagan Gray, Sanjeev Singh, Stephen D Zucker

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Article in Hepatology communications, 2019. 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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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Meagan GrayDivision of Gastroenterology and Hepatology University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham AL.
Sanjeev SinghDivision of Digestive Diseases University of Cincinnati Medical Center Cincinnati OH.
Stephen D ZuckerDivision of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Endoscopy Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston MA.
Brigham and Women's Hospital · USUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham · USUniversity of Cincinnati Medical Center · US

Funding

University of Alabama at Birmingham's Diabetes Research CenterP30DK079626 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI BARBARA A GOWER · 2013 to 2026
$19.5M
NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK079626
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Liver transplant centers often establish hemoglobin A1c (HbA1C) criteria for candidates with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) based on data from other surgical specialties showing worse outcomes in patients with poor glycemic control. However, because of the reduced reliability of HbA1C in cirrhosis, it is unclear whether pretransplant HbA1C values are predictive of postoperative complications in liver recipients. We retrospectively examined the association between preoperative HbA1C and postoperative outcomes in 173 consecutive patients who underwent liver transplantation at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center between August 2012 and March 2015. Demographic correlates of pretransplant HbA1C included age, T2DM, native Model for End-Stage Liver Disease, hemoglobin, serum albumin, and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis as the indication for transplantation. No association was identified between pretransplant HbA1C and most outcome measures, including survival, length of stay, reoperation or readmission rates, rejection, bacteremia, and viremia. Significant correlates of HbA1C in liver recipients with diabetes were posttransplant insulin requirement and anastomotic biliary stricture formation. On multivariate analysis, HbA1C was the sole determinant of biliary strictures, with patients in the highest quartile (HbA1C >7.3%) exhibiting a 4-fold increased risk. Correlation of HbA1C with morning blood glucose levels was much tighter after versus before transplantation.

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PMID30976746
PMCPMC6442696
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