Survival after liver transplantation in cirrhotic patients with and without hepatocellular carcinoma: a comparative study

Hepatology : Official Journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases
J FiguerasL Casais

Abstract

Cumulative recurrence after surgical resection for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is very high. Several retrospective analyses have shown that liver transplantation was more effective than resection for patients with HCC at early tumor stages. Consequently, in January 1990, we decided to prospectively indicate orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) as the first surgical treatment for small, localized HCC in cirrhotic patients without nodal involvement independently of the degree of liver function. The aim of this prospective cohort study was to analyze prognosis, recurrence rate, and survival after liver transplantation in patients in whom the main indication was HCC with cirrhosis. Thirty-eight patients in whom the main indication for liver transplantation was HCC and hepatic cirrhosis were compared with 136 transplantations because of cirrhosis without tumor, performed in our unit from January 1990 to December 1995. HCC arising in noncirrhotic livers and those incidently discovered after OLT were excluded from the study. Chemoembolization using doxorubicin, lipiodol, and Gelfoam was performed before OLT in 31 patients with good liver function. There were no differences in gender, but HCC patients were older (57 +/- 7 vs. 50 +...Continue Reading

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