[Surgical treatment of liver cancer: experience of the A Coruña UHC (Spain)].

Introduction: Liver cancer (LC) is one of the most frequent tumours, in which the potentially curative treatment is surgery: partial surgical resection or liver transplant.

Objectives: To determine the morbidity and mortality, survival, and their associated factors in patients with LC, according to the type of surgical treatment: partial surgical resection or liver transplant.

Material And Methods: A retrospective, observational follow-up study of LC patients diagnosed and treated from June 1994 to December 2007.

Fulminant hepatic failure due to varicella zoster in a heart transplant patient: successful liver transplant.

Fulminant hepatic failure is a rare complication of infection by varicella zoster virus that is favored by immunosuppression. Within 1 week, a 43-year-old male heart transplant recipient who was admitted with epigastric pain successively developed a generalized vesicular rash, hepatitis, and secondary multiorganic failure involving encephalopathy, despite treatment with acyclovir (since Day 2) and varicella zoster virus immunoglobulin (since Day 6). Emergency liver transplantation was performed on Day 9, and 36 months later, his heart and liver function are normal.