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Indications for orthotopic liver transplantation in fulminant liver failure

✍ Scribed by Dr. Roger Williams; Julia Wendon

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1994
Tongue
English
Weight
645 KB
Volume
20
Category
Article
ISSN
0270-9139

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## Key Points 1. Liver transplantation is currently an effective therapy for patients with HCC who meet the Milan criteria. 2. The proportion of patients on waiting lists for liver transplantation who have HCC has increased substantially in recent years. HCC is currently one of the major indicatio