• Medicina · Jan 2020

    [Impact of COVID-19 pandemic in liver transplantation in Argentina. Other collateral damage].

    • Gabriel E Gondolesi, María Laura Reyes-Toso, Liliana Bisigniano, Martín de Santibañes, Juan Pekolj, Rafael Maurette, Emilio G Quiñonez, Martín A Maraschio, Oscar Imventarza, Javier Lendoire, Lisandro Bitetti, Andrés Ruf, Gabriel Aballay, Octavio Gil, Francisco J Mattera, Barros Schelotto Pablo P Cirugía General Hepatología y Trasplante Hepático, Hospital Universitario Fundación Favaloro, Buenos Aires, Argentina., and Valeria I Descalzi.
    • Cirugía General Hepatología y Trasplante Hepático, Hospital Universitario Fundación Favaloro, Buenos Aires, Argentina. E-mail: ggondole@ffavaloro.org.
    • Medicina (B Aires). 2020 Jan 1; 80 Suppl 6: 71-82.

    AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic declared in March 2020, has generated worldwide concern due to its effect on the health of the population and the potential health collapse. The strategy of "flattening the curve" through social distancing made it possible to adapt the resources of the health system to patients with COVID-19, but results in other areas of health could not be predicted. The objective of this work was to analyze the consequences of the pandemic on liver transplantation in general and for hepatocarcinoma (HCC). The following studies were carried out: a) a retrospective analysis using data from the CRESI / INCUCAI to compare admission to the waiting list, mortality on the list, donation and liver transplantation from 03/20 to 08/15, 2019 and the same period in 2020, and b) a survey of the transplant centers with the highest transplant activity to assess the effect of the measures taken in different institutional and regional situations. The first analysis showed a 55% decrease in liver transplants, with a similar reduction in donation and admission to the liver waiting list; while HCC transplantation rose from 10% in 2019 to 22% in 2020. The second analysis showed that the occupancy rate of beds by COVID-19 patients / week was variable: from 0.4% to 42.0%. The number of surgeries, hepato-bilio-pancreatic, resection of HCC and liver transplantation, were reduced by 47%, 49%, 31% and 36% respectively. The reduction in transplant activity mainly affected centers with high occupancy due to COVID-19. The final long-term outcome will need to be assessed.

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