Acute inpatient rehabilitation of 55 patients after liver transplantation.

Objective: Acute rehabilitation for patients who have had liver transplants is often necessary to restore functional mobility, but no studies, except for case reports, have documented the complications, outcomes, or predictors of success of an acute inpatient rehabilitation program. Our objective was to examine each of these areas related to rehabilitation after liver transplantation.

Design: We performed a chart review of 55 patients who received a liver transplant and were treated on our acute rehabilitation service.