UK better than US in liver transplant outcome

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UK better than US in liver transplant outcome

Scotland, Dec 18: The progress rate of the liver transplantation is better in UK when compared to US. The patients who undergo liver transplantation in the US have a better 90 days survival rate. At the same time the post surgical survival rate in the UK and the Ireland is far greater than that in the US as the patients regain their original health soon after the first year, a research has revealed.

Experts believe that the international assessment of the surgical results is more complex one in nature as the comparison of the surgical results would create problem and often fail to bring in long term results.

The research examined the data for the past ten year period. The data included 5925 transplant cases conducted in the UK and the Northern Ireland along with the 41,866 transplants performed in the US during the same time period. The mortality rate at 90 days among the patients with acute liver failure and those with chronic liver disease amounts to 27 percent and 18 percent respectively.

The outcome of the research shed light on the difference between the two health systems funded by thoroughly different mechanisms. A fully private funded one like the system that is prevailing in the US was expected to have a quick result for liver transplantation. At the same time the system funded by the universally funded health care as in the UK, have a better result after the first transplant year.

http://news.scotland.org.uk/2007/12/18/uk-better-than-us-in-liver-transplant-outcome/