Journal of Liver: Disease & TransplantationISSN: 2325-9612

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Nils Heits Author

nils.heits@uksh-kiel.de +494315974301

Subjects of specialization
Liver Transplantation, Transplant Surgery, Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Liver Surgery, Hepatobiliary Surgery

Affiliation
Department of General, Visceral-, Thoracic-, Transplantation- and Paediatric Surgery, University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH),Germany

Biography

Nils Heits, Department of General, Visceral, Thoracic, Transplantation- and Paediatric Surgery, University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH),Germany. Nils Heits has published numerous research papers and articles in reputed journals and has various other achievements in the related studies and has extended valuable service towards the scientific community with extensive research work.

Publications

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Is there a Benefit from Rescue-Allocated Organs for HCCPatients Staged outside the Milan Criteria?

Author(s):

Nils Heits, Judith Finsterbusch, Christoph Rocken, Philipp Schaefer, Rainer Guenther, Heiko Aselmann, Jan-Hendrik Egberts, Jan Beckmann, Clemens Schafmayer, Benedikt Reichert, Alexander Bernsmeier, Jochen Hampe, Thomas Becker and Felix Braun.

Objective: For hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) a 5-year survival rate over 75% is achieved within Milan-criteria (MC), but expanded criteria (UCSF- and Bologna-criteria) show similar survival rates.Management of the waiting list remains controversial and living donation and rescue allocation may help to reduce waiting time for patients outside MC in Germany.

Methods: 110 Patients listed for liver transplantation at UKSH Kiel from 1998 - 2014 with HCC were analysed. Assuming that patients outside the MC had a longer waiting time for primary-donor organs, we compared the outcome of patients with rescue-view more»

DOI: 10.4172/2325-9612.1000133

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