A Simple Measure of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Burden Predicts Tumor Recurrence After Liver Transplantation: The Recurrent Hepatocellular Carcinoma-Initial, Maximum, Last Classification.

Risk of recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma (rHCC) after liver transplantation (LT) depends on the pre-LT HCC burden, tumor behavior, and response to locoregional therapy (LRT). In December 2017, LT priority for HCC was expanded to select patients outside the Milan criteria who respond to LRT. Our aims were to develop a novel objective measure of pre-LT HCC burden (model of recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma-initial, maximum, last [RH-IML]), incorporating tumor behavior over time, and to apply RH-IML to model post-LT rHCC.

Interferon-based hepatitis C therapy in a safety net hospital: access, efficacy, and safety.

Aims: This study assesses the efficacy, accessibility, and safety of hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment in a safety net hospital population.

Methods: Patients at Denver Health receiving pegylated interferon for HCV infection between 2008 and 2012 were included in this retrospective study. Sociodemographic, biochemical, and virologic data were collected on each patient.

Consensus Interferon for Recurrent Hepatitis C Infection in Nonresponders to Peginterferon and Ribavirin After Liver Transplant.

Objectives: Hepatitis C virus infection universally recurs in liver transplant recipients. Peginterferon/ribavirin achieves a sustained virologic response rate of 30% in recipients infected with hepatitis C virus genotype 1. Consensus-interferon plus ribavirin yields sustained virologic response rates to 30% in patients failing to achieve sustained virologic response with peginterferon/ribavirin pretransplant, but it has not been studied posttransplant.