Portal Hypertension & Cirrhosis (Sep 2023)

Investigation on the short‐term outcome and prognostic impact of predisposition, and precipitants in inpatients with chronic liver disease from Chinese AcuTe on CHronic LIver FailurE (CATCH‐LIFE) cohorts

  • Yan Zhang,
  • Wenting Tan,
  • Xiaobo Wang,
  • Xin Zheng,
  • Yan Huang,
  • Beiling Li,
  • Zhongji Meng,
  • Yanhang Gao,
  • Zhiping Qian,
  • Feng Liu,
  • Xiaobo Lu,
  • Jia Shang,
  • Yubao Zheng,
  • Weituo Zhang,
  • Shan Yin,
  • Wenyi Gu,
  • Tongyu Wang,
  • Jianyi Wei,
  • Zixuan Shen,
  • Guohong Deng,
  • Yi Zhou,
  • Yixin Hou,
  • Qun Zhang,
  • Shue Xiong,
  • Jing Liu,
  • Liyuan Long,
  • Ruochan Chen,
  • Jinjun Chen,
  • Xiuhua Jiang,
  • Sen Luo,
  • Yuanyuan Chen,
  • Chang Jiang,
  • Jinming Zhao,
  • Liujuan Ji,
  • Xue Mei,
  • Jing Li,
  • Tao Li,
  • Rongjiong Zheng,
  • Xinyi Zhou,
  • Haotang Ren,
  • Yu Shi,
  • Hai Li,
  • for the CATCH‐LIFE Study Investigators of Chinese (Acute‐on) Chronic Liver Failure (CLIF) Consortium (Ch‐CLIF.C)

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/poh2.53
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 3
pp. 115 – 126

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Abstract Aim The study aimed to investigate the short‐term outcomes of hospitalized patients with chronic liver disease (CLDs) and assess the prognostic impact of predisposition and precipitants, which currently remains unclear. Methods The study included 3970 hospitalized patients with CLDs from two prospective longitudinal multicenter studies (NCT02457637 and NCT03641872) conducted in highly endemic hepatitis B virus (HBV) areas. Competing risk analysis was used to evaluate the effect of predispositions, including the etiology and severity of CLDs and precipitants; on sequential 28, 90, and 365‐day liver transplantation (LT)‐free mortality. Results Among all enrolled patients, 76.8% of adverse outcomes (including death and LT) within one year occurred within 90 days. Compared with alcoholic etiology, the association of HBV etiology with poorer outcomes was remarkably on the 28th day (hazard ratio [HR], 1.81; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.07–3.06; p = 0.026); however, and diminished or became insignificant at 90 days and 365 days. Cirrhosis increased the adjusted risk for 365‐day (HR, 1.50; CI, 1.13–1.99; p = 0.004) LT‐free mortality when compared with noncirrhosis. In patients with cirrhosis, prior decompensation (PD) independently increased the adjusted risk of 365‐day LT‐free mortality by 1.25‐fold (p = 0.021); however, it did not increase the risk for 90‐day mortality. Neither the category nor the number of precipitants influenced the adjusted risk of 28 or 90‐day LT‐free mortality. Conclusions The 90‐day outcome should be considered a significant endpoint for evaluating the short‐term prognosis of hospitalized patients with CLD. Predisposing factors, other than etiology, mainly affected the delayed (365‐day) outcome. Timely effective therapy for CLD etiology, especially antiviral treatments for HBV, and post‐discharge long‐term surveillance monitoring in cirrhotic patients undergoing PD are suggested to enhance disease management and reduce mortality.

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