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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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