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© 2026 The Authors.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 center-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, 3250 (23.9%) experienced at least 1 suspension episode. In adjusted time-varying analyses, reactivation following suspension was strongly associated with reduced access to transplantation (hazard ratio [HR], 0.36; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.32-0.39, P < .001), but was not associated with increased death/delisting hazard (HR, 0.95; 95% CI, 0.84-1.08, P = .451), and currently suspended status showed no consistent association with death/delisting (HR, 1.11; 95% CI, 0.90-1.37, P = .310). Findings were robust across center-adjustment and sensitivity analyses. Waitlist suspension identifies a clinically important transition point after which transplant access remains reduced despite reactivation.
Author(s): Malik AK, Matevish LE, Taylor R, Tingle SJ, Masson S, Wilson CH, White SA, Aluvihare V, Patel MS, Manas DM
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: American Journal of Transplantation
Year: 2026
Issue: ePub ahead of Print
Online publication date: 18/07/2026
Acceptance date: 14/07/2026
ISSN (print): 1600-6135
ISSN (electronic): 1600-6143
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajt.2026.07.015
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajt.2026.07.015
PubMed id: 42471224
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