[Long-term follow-up of the first 500 liver transplant recipients transplanted at the Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine in Prague].

Background: Between April 1995 and November 2005, 500 liver transplantations were performed in 476 patients of age from 3, till 70, at the Transplantation center of the Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine (IKEM) in Prague. The most common indications for liver transplantation were alcoholic liver cirrhosis (23%), hepatitis C cirrhosis (17%), and cholestatic cirrhosis (PBC and PSC, 9% each). Mean MELD score of recipients at the transplantation was 15-18 for each year of transplantation.