Publication date: Jul 18, 2026
Candidates awaiting liver transplantation may undergo waitlist suspension, the temporary inactivation of candidates from organ allocation, for various medical or logistical reasons. We performed a national cohort study using the United Kingdom Transplant Registry to evaluate the association between waitlist suspension and outcomes in adults listed for liver-only transplantation. Adjusted time-varying cause-specific Cox models, with start-stop times for suspension, were used as the primary analysis . Separate sensitivity analyses adjusted for centre-specific effects, censoring for COVID-19-related suspensions, censoring clinical improvement suspensions, and incorporating a 30-day landmark removing early events from the risk set. Among 13,596 candidates, 3,250 (23. 9%) experienced at least one suspension episode. In adjusted time-varying analyses, reactivation following suspension was strongly associated with reduced access to transplantation (HR 0. 36, 95% CI 0. 32-0. 39, p
| Concepts | Keywords |
|---|---|
| Liver transplantation | |
| Outcomes | |
| Suspension | |
| Waiting list |
Semantics
| Type | Source | Name |
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| disease | MESH | COVID-19 |