Hepatic transplantation outcomes for carefully selected cirrhotic patients with hepatocellular carcinoma: experience at a small- to medium-volume centre.
BACKGROUND
Hepatic transplantation outcomes for cirrhotic patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) at a small- to medium-volume centre are not fully known due to relative novelty of patient selection criteria.


OBJECTIVE
To determine hepatic transplantation outcomes for HCC at a small- to medium-volume centre. Patients and methods Hepatocellular carcinoma patients were listed for transplantation according to the International Guideline and further categorized as those fulfilling or exceeding Milan or University of San Francisco (UCSF) criteria on explanted liver morphology. Outcomes including mortality, retransplantation, and tumour recurrence rate were analysed.


RESULTS
Twenty-six patients had HCC and on explanted liver morphology, Milan and UCSF criteria met 15 and 18 patients, respectively. Patients and graft survival at 3 months, 1 and 5 years were 100, 96, 84, and 88, 84, 77%, respectively. Outcomes favoured Milan criteria but did not reach statistical significance.


CONCLUSIONS
Hepatic transplantation for HCC at a small-to medium-volume transplant centre had comparable survival outcomes to high-volume centres.
Qasim
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St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. asgharqasim@yahoo.co.uk
Zaman
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MB
Maguire
D
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Geoghegan
J
J
Gibney
R
R
Nolan
N
N
Traynor
O
O
Hegarty
J
J
McCormick
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PA
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D006528:Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008103:Liver Cirrhosis / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D008875:Middle Aged; D016896:Treatment Outcome