Articles tagged "Mortality"

2015 American Transplant Congress
Associations Between Sirolimus Use and Outcomes After Liver Transplant for Hepatocellular Carcinoma
E. Yanik,¹ S. Chinnakotla,² A. Israni,^2,3 J. Snyder,^2,3 S. Gustafson,³ E. Engels.¹
¹Natl. Cancer Inst., Bethesda, MD; ²U. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; ³Sci. Reg. of Transplant Recipients, Minneapolis, MN.
A growing fraction of U.S. liver transplants are being done for the indication of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). HCC recurrence after transplant remains a major concern…