Moving toward personalizing MELD exceptions in liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma

Affiliations

¹ Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
² Division of Liver and Pancreas Transplant, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California.

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Editorial

Neehar D Parikh et al. Am J Transplant. 2019 Aug.

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. 2019 Aug;19(8):2153-2154.

doi: 10.1111/ajt.15389. Epub 2019 May 6.

¹ Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
² Division of Liver and Pancreas Transplant, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California.

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Keywords: cancer/malignancy/neoplasia; editorial/personal viewpoint; liver transplantation/hepatology; waitlist management.

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Predictors of low risk for dropout from the liver transplant waiting list for hepatocellular carcinoma in long wait time regions: Implications for organ allocation.
Mehta N, Dodge JL, Hirose R, Roberts JP, Yao FY. Mehta N, et al. Am J Transplant. 2019 Aug;19(8):2210-2218. doi: 10.1111/ajt.15353. Epub 2019 Apr 5. Am J Transplant. 2019. PMID: 30861298 Free PMC article.