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Liver Transplant Results Improve, but Re-Transplant Results Lag

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Advances in knowledge and techniques improved postoperative liver transplant outcomes, but optimizing re-liver transplant outcomes requires further research.

Initial liver transplant (LT) outcomes have improved over recent decades; however, liver re-transplant outcomes have not kept pace, Stanford University researchers report in Clinical Transplantation.

“Our study investigated the progress of liver re-transplant (re-LT) outcomes in the United States over the past two decades. Read the article in Physician’s Weekly.

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Shrinking Liver Tumors Before Transplant Greatly Improves Outcomes in HCC

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Mount Sinai researchers have shown that shrinking liver tumors to a size that allows the patient to qualify for liver transplant results in excellent 10-year outcomes, validating current US policies for transplant eligibility.

Parissa Tabrizian, Associate Professor of Surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and colleagues explain in JAMA Surgery that liver transplant eligibility among people with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has been guided by the Milan Criteria for more than 20 years. Read more from Inside Precision Medicine.

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