Anesthetic risk factors associated with early mortality in pediatric liver transplantation.

Introduction: Early mortality in pediatric patients after liver transplantation (30 days) may be due to surgical and anesthetic perioperative factors.

Objective: To identify anesthetic risk factors associated with early mortality in pediatric patients who undergo liver transplantation (OLT).

Materials And Methods: This retrospective study of all patients who underwent a deceased or living donor liver transplantation evaluated demographic variables of age, weight, gender, degree of malnutrition, and etiology, as well as qualitative variables of anesthesia time, bleeding, massive transfusion, acid-base balance, electrolyte and metabolic disorders, as well as graft prereperfusion postreperfusion characteristics.