Erratum: Prevalence and significance of occult hepatitis B in a liver transplant population with chronic hepatitis C

✍ Scribed by Kirti Shetty; Munira Hussain; Lei Nei; K. Rajender Reddy; Anna S.F. Lok

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 30 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1527-6465
• DOI: 10.1002/lt.22261

✦ Synopsis

page 534): Explant-proven hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) was found in 13 of 22 (59%) patients with occult HBV liver compared to 8 of 22 (36%) patients without occult HBV liver (P ¼ 0.36, odds ratio 2.5; confidence interval 0.76-8.54.

On page 536, column 2: On univariate analysis, no significant differences were noted between the two groups in terms of MELD score at entry, or explant-proven HCC.

On page 536, column 2: Occult HBV liver was not associated with the presence of explant-proven HCC. Of 22 patients with occult HBV liver undergoing OLT, 13 (59%) had HCC compared to 8 of 22 (36%) without occult HBV liver (P =0.36, odds ratio 2.5; confidence interval 0.76-8.54).

On page 539, column 1: The last paragraph should read as -In our study, the prevalence of occult HBV among those with HCC was no higher than those without HCC. This is at variance with epidemiological and molecular studies which implicate a possible oncogenic role for occult HBV in the development of HCC.

On page 539, column 2: The last paragraph should read as -No association was noted between the presence of occult HBV and the development of HCC.