Posttransplant quality of life has been excellent. Of those patients who are at least 2 months posttransplant, 65% are currently employed outside the home, 15% are homemakers, 7% are unemployed, 7% are retired, 1 is currently at secondary school and 4% are still convalescing. Only 14% were working prior to transplantation, because of ill health. One patient became pregnant 18 months posttransplant and delivered a healthy, full-term baby.

One hundred and nine liver transplants (including 1 combined heart-liver , 1 sequential liver-bone marrow and 5 re-transplants) were performed on 104 patients.

Avgs of 104 Patients transplanted:

Definitions for key terms:

Cold Ischaemia: the period of time during which the liver is out of the body

Transfused RBCs: the number of standard units of red blood cells used during the transplant operation

ICU Stay: the number of days the patient spent in the intensive care unit after transplant

Graft: the transplanted organ, in this case the new liver

Immunosupression: the drugs used to stop rejection of the new liver

Age: 50 Years (14-70) Sex (M/F): 73:31
Ethnicity: European 71, Maori 13, Pacific Island 12, Asian 8, Arabic 3, Indian 2

Kaplan-Meier estimate of graft survival in 109 transplants (Figure 3) at 1 year is 92% and at 3 years is 83% (compared to 81% and 72% respectively for 7196 North Americans transplanted during this period).14 Five patients have undergone retransplantation, three for ischaemic cholangiopathy, one for chronic rejection and one for cholestatic hepatitis C.