The role of preoperative optimization of the nutritional status on the improvement of short-term outcomes after liver transplantation? A review of the literature and expert panel recommendations.

They showed a trend toward increased risk of death in control (9/40; seven before and two after LT) versus intervention (5/42; two before and three after LT); however, the difference was not statistically significant (.075). 18 What was noted was a trend to a shortened LOS in the patients who were less nutritionally deficient at the time of transplant.

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