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In a PSC patient who has received liver transplant, what graft and/or patient factors predispose to a more rapid return of their disease and how do you manage these peri-operatively and post-transplant?

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Hepatology · Johns Hopkins Medicine

Unfortunately, there are not a lot of modifiable risk factors for recurrent PSC. If the patient has concomitant IBD, then good control of the disease helps to prevent risk. Other risk factors include young age, HJ anastomosis, female gender, and cold ischemia time. Not much we can do about these.

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