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SUBMITTER: Chaiteerakij R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4490162 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 20150501 5
Growing evidence suggests that pretransplant alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) predicts outcomes of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients treated with liver transplantation. We aimed to determine whether pretransplant AFP, Lens culinaris agglutinin-reactive alpha-fetoprotein (AFP-L3), and des-gamma-carboxyprothrombin (DCP) predicted HCC recurrence after transplantation. A retrospective cohort study of 313 HCC patients undergoing transplantation between 2000 and 2008 was conducted, and 48 (15.3%) develop ...[more]