CYTOMEGALOVIRUS DISEASE IS ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED COST AND HOSPITAL LENGTH OF STAY AMONG ORTHOTOPIC LIVER TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS1
- 1 June 1997
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Transplantation
- Vol. 63 (11), 1595-1601
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00007890-199706150-00010
Abstract
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a cause of considerable morbidity and mortality among orthotopic liver transplant (OLT) recipients. To study the impact of CMV on cost and hospital length of stay in this population, we undertook an analysis of a cohort of OLT recipients from four transplant centers in Boston who participated in a CMV prophylaxis trial. First posttransplant year hospital length of stay (including the hospital stay after transplantation and readmissions within 1 year after transplantation) was available for all 141 patients included in the study. In a multiple linear regression model, bacteremia (P=0.0001), CMV disease (P=0.0007), abdominal reexploration (excluding retransplantation) (P=0.0070), recipient age ≤16 years (P=0.0352), and the number of units of blood products (red blood cells, platelets, or fresh frozen plasma) administered during transplantation (P=0.0523) were shown to be independently associated with longer first posttransplant year hospital length of stay. Cost data for in-hospital care for the year beginning with admission for liver transplantation were available for 66 OLT recipients. Using a multiple linear regression model, development of CMV disease (P=0.0001), the number of units of blood products administered during transplantation (P=0.0001), bacteremia (P=0.0002), decreased pretransplant renal function (estimated by creatinine clearance) (P=0.0109), and need for retransplantation (P=0.0619) were shown to be independently associated with higher cost. These data strongly suggest that CMV disease has a direct impact on cost and hospital length of stay in liver transplantation.Keywords
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