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- Title
Recipient perioperative cholesterolaemia and graft cholesterol metabolism gene expression predict liver transplant outcome.
- Authors
Ginanni Corradini, Stefano; Siciliano, Maria; Parlati, Lucia; Molinaro, Antonio; Cantafora, Alfredo; Poli, Edoardo; Mennini, Gianluca; Melandro, Fabio; Vestri, Anna Rita; Merli, Manuela; Bianco, Paolo; Corsi, Alessandro; Toniutto, Pierluigi; Bitetto, Davide; Falleti, Edmondo; Attili, Adolfo Francesco; Berloco, Pasquale; Rossi, Massimo
- Abstract
Background & Aims We analysed for the first time whether recipient perioperative serum total cholesterol ( sTC) concentration is associated with liver transplantation outcome. Methods We studied noncholestatic cirrhotics submitted to primary deceased-donor liver transplantation in a prospective group ( n = 140) from Rome and in a validation retrospective cohort ( n = 157) from Udine, Italy. Pre-ischaemia and post-reperfusion cholesterol metabolism gene mRNA was measured by RT-PCR in 74 grafts of the study group. Results At Cox regression analysis, independently from confounders including recipient MELD score, the recipient pre-operative sTC pooled quintiles 2-5, compared with the lowest quintile showed HR (95% CI) and significances for overall graft loss (GL) of 0.215 (0.104-0.444) P < 0.001 in the study group and 0.319 (0.167-0.610) P = 0.001 in the validation cohort. Analysing sTC as a continuous variable, the risk of overall GL for every 10-mg/dl decrease in pre-operative sTC increased by 13% and by 9% in the study group and in the validation cohort respectively. In the study group, independent associations at multivariate analyses were: (a) high graft pre-ischaemia expression of INSIG-1, which indicates hepatocellular cholesterol depletion, with post-reperfusion graft necrosis; (b) GL with inadequate graft post-reperfusion response to cholesterol depletion, shown by a failure to reduce the PCSK9 to LDLR expression ratio; (c) GL with a relative increase of sTC on post-operative day-7, selectively because of the LDL fraction, which indirectly suggests poor cholesterol uptake from blood. Conclusions Low recipient pre-transplant sTC concentration, its post-operative day-7 increase and a genetically determined low graft cholesterol availability predict poor liver transplant outcome.
- Subjects
HYPERCHOLESTEREMIA; CHOLESTEROL metabolism; GENE expression; LIVER transplantation; MESSENGER RNA
- Publication
Liver International, 2014, Vol 34, Issue 7, pe290
- ISSN
1478-3223
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/liv.12351