Table 1

Preoperative and explant iron studies in 37 patients undergoing liver transplantation for alcoholic liver disease

	Pretransplant			Liver explant			HFE analysis
OLT number	Alcohol (g/day)	Child-Pugh grade	Transferrin saturation^*	Serum ferritin^†	Spur cell anaemia		Histological iron grade (0–4)	Hepatic iron concentration^‡	Hepatic iron index^§		C282Y	H63D
330	160	C	26	365	N		0	19	0.29		CC	HH
379	150	C	15	33	N		0	14	0.48		CC	HH
87	180	C	70	27	N		0	21	0.50		CC	HH
394	150	B	15	24	N		0	6	0.09		CC	HH
146	90	C	36	65	N		0	17	0.30		CC	HD
239	100	C	8	45	N		0	8	0.20		CY	HH
302	300	C	23	70	N		0	6	0.10		CC	HD
192	270	B	11	42	N		0	4	0.08		CC	HH
152	90	C	79	120	N		0	7	0.13		CC	HH
155	100	C	10	61	N		0	15	0.25		CC	HD
48	120	C	24	83	N		0	6	0.12		CC	HH
281	60	C	82	590	N		0	24	0.49		CC	HH
206	240	C	49	81	N		0	7	0.17		CC	HD
156	90	B	22	375	N		1	41	0.82		CC	HD
308	100	B	56	840	N		1	18	0.45		CY	HD
297	100	C	86	345	N		1	12	0.25		CC	HH
13	140	C	18	26	N		1	7	0.14		CC	HH
365	140	C	80	230	N		1	55	1.34		CC	HH
225	100	C	70	590	N		1	68	1.24		CC	HH
299	100	C	70	1090	N		1	30	0.67		CC	HH
207	100	C	70	315	N		1	30	0.71		–	–
388	50	C	73	590	N		1	43	0.95		CC	HD
223	140	C	63	550	N		1	57	0.97		CC	HH
341	180	C	79	430	N		1	40	0.95		CC	HH
198	100	C	66	800	N		2	39	0.79		CC	HH
167	200	B	38	280	N		2	61	1.10		CC	HD
370	100	C	74	390	Y		2	30	0.58		CC	HH
278	90	C	77	200	N		2	29	0.56		CC	HH
50	180	C	84	730	N		2	27	0.59		CC	HH
425	90	B	62	330	N		3	88	1.95		CC	HD
373	150	C	44	365	N		3	102	2.54		CC	HH
392	80	C	74	510	Y		3	130	1.87		CC	HH
432	110	C	97	2980	Y		4	54	1.35		CC	HH
276	200	C	87	1036	Y		4	55	0.93		CC	HH
296	180	C	84	1380	Y		4	95	1.70		CC	HH
401	120	C	76	1200	Y		4	170	3.40		CC	HD
313	110	C	84	1775	Y		4	232	5.10		CC	HH

Normal values: ^*15–55%; ^†25–350 μl; ^‡<25 μmol/g;^§<2.
HFE: C282Y gene mutation (CC = homozygous normal, CY = heterozygous); H63D gene mutation (HH = homozygous normal, HD = heterozygous).