Donor Gender Effect on Graft Function in Adult Egyptian Patients Undergoing Living Donor Liver Transplant

Donor Gender Effect on Graft Function in Adult Egyptian Patients Undergoing Living Donor Liver Transplant: A Single Centre Retrospective Study

Liver transplantation (LT) represents the gold-standard therapy for the treatment in case of dreadful liver pathologies . It is thus a main concern to optimize the results in terms of post-LT survivals. The effect of gender match on post-transplant outcome is still debatable. Hormonal , and size difference between female and male may be proposed to affect the post transplant outcome . The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of donor-recipient gender mismatch on survival rates

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adult Egyptian Patients >18 years.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patient refusal.
• Patients who underwent re-transplantation before discharge from the ICU after the first liver transplant.
• Intraoperative cardiac arrest or immediately postoperative cardiac arrest within the first 6 hours postoperative.
• Massive blood loss.
• Pre-existing renal failure requiring hemodialysis or continuous hemofiltration.
• Pregnancy.