BACKGROUND Acute kidney injury (AKI) has serious consequences on the prognosis of patients undergoing liver transplantation. Recently, artificial neural network (ANN) was reported to have better predictive ability than the classical logistic regression (LR) for this postoperative outcome. AIM To identify the risk factors of AKI after deceased-donor liver transplantation (DDLT) and compare the prediction performance of ANN with that of LR for this complication. METHODS Adult patients with no evidence of end-stage kidney dysfunction (KD) who underwent the first DDLT according to model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) score allocation system was evaluated. AKI was defined according to the International Club of Ascites criteria, and potential predictors of postoperative AKI were identified by LR. The prediction performance of both ANN and LR was tested. RESULTS The incidence of AKI was 60.6% ( n = 88/145) and the following predictors were identified by LR: MELD score > 25 (odds ratio [OR] = 1.999), preoperative kidney dysfunction (OR = 1.279), extended criteria donors (OR = 1.191), intraoperative arterial hypotension (OR = 1.935), intraoperative massive blood transfusion (MBT) (OR = 1.830), and postoperative serum lactate (SL) (OR = 2.001). The area under the receiver-operating characteristic curve was best for ANN (0.81, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.75-0.83) than for LR (0.71, 95%CI: 0.67-0.76). The root-mean-square error and mean absolute error in the ANN model were 0.47 and 0.38, respectively. CONCLUSION The severity of liver disease, pre-existing kidney dysfunction, marginal grafts, hemodynamic instability, MBT, and SL are predictors of postoperative AKI, and ANN has better prediction performance than LR in this scenario.
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