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    Impact of Karnofsky performance status on outcomes of patients with severe alcohol-associated hepatitis: a propensity-matched analysis
    (2024) Kulkarni, Anand V.; Venishetty, Shantan; Kumar, Karan; Gurav, Nitish; Albhaisi, Somaya; Chhabbra, Prateek; Shaik, Sameer; Alla, Manasa; Iyengar, Sowmya; Sharma, Mithun; Rao, Padaki N.; Arab, Juan P.; Reddy, Duvvur N.
    Background and Aims: Severity scores, including the model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) and discriminant function score, guide the treatment of patients with severe alcohol-associated hepatitis (AH). We aimed to investigate the impact of functional status on outcomes of patients with AH. Methods: Medically managed patients (n = 133) with AH from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2022 were included in this prospective study. The objectives were to compare the long-term survival, recompensation rates, corticosteroid response, incidence of infections, hepatic encephalopathy (HE) and acute kidney injury (AKI) among propensity score-matched patients with good Karnofsky performance status (KPS) (score >= 50) and poor KPS (score <50) using Kaplan-Meier analysis. Results: Twenty-five patients with good KPS were matched with 25 patients with poor KPS and followed up for a median duration of 10 (0.5-33) months. Survival was 76% (19/25; 95% confidence interval (CI), 54.9-90.6) in patients with good KPS compared to 42.3% (11/25; 95% CI, 23.4-63.1) patients with poor KPS (P = 0.001) at 10 months. The recompensation rate was higher in the good KPS group than in the poor KPS group (68% vs 44%; P = 0.04). A higher proportion of patients in the good KPS group (78.9%) than in the poor KPS group (42.8%; P = 0.03) responded to corticosteroids. Survival was lower among non-responders in the poor KPS group (0% vs 75%; P = 0.01). The proportion of patients who developed infection (36% vs 28%; P = 0.051), HE (36% vs 12%; P = 0.01) and AKI (60% vs 16%; P < 0.001) was higher in patients with poor KPS than in good KPS. Conclusions: KPS is an important determinant of outcomes in patients with AH, including survival, recompensation, response to corticosteroids and complications.