The baseline characteristics of the recipients are shown in Table 1 . The underlying liver diseases of the 144 patients are presented in Table 2 . The incidence of hepa-torenal syndrome and diabetes mellitus was 29 patients (20.1%) and 26 patients (18.1%), respectively. The mean MELD score of these 128 patients was corrected 19.5 ± 7.1 (median 19, range 8 to 40) and uncorrected 15.8 ± 8.6 (median 15, range 6 to 40), respectively. Sixteen out of 144 patients (11.1%) or 21 out of 151 transplantations (13.9%) (inclusive of four retransplantations) were high urgent listed and transplanted because of acute liver failure or primary graft nonfunction, respectively. The location of the patients directly before transplantation was 106 (70.2%) at home, 18 (11.9%) on a normal ward and 27 (17.9%) on the ICU. The incidence of pretransplant RRT was 7 out of 144 patients (4.8%).