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Liver transplantation and resection in patients with hepatocellular cancer and portal vein tumor thrombosis:Feasible and effective?

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Patients with locally advanced hepatocellular cancer(HCC)and portal vein tumor thrombosis(PVTT)have a dismal prognosis since limited treatment options are available for them.In recent years,effective sys-temic therapy,and advances in the understanding of technicalities and effectiveness of ablative therapies especially radiotherapy,have given some hope to prolong survival in them.This review summarized re-cent evidence in literature regarding the possible role of liver resection(LR)and liver transplantation(LT)in patients with locally advanced HCC and PVTT with no extrahepatic disease.Downstaging therapies have helped make curative resection or LT a reality in selected patients.This review emphasizes on the key points to focus on when considering surgery in these patients,who are usually relegated to palliative systemic therapy alone.Meticulous patient selection based on tumor biology,documented downstaging based on imaging and decrease in tumor marker levels,and an adequate waiting period to demonstrate stable disease,may help obtain satisfactory long-term outcomes post LR or LT in an intention to treat strategy in patients with HCC and PVTT.

Hepatocellular carcinomaPortal vein tumour thrombosisDownstaging therapiesLiving donor liver transplantation and resectionOutcomes

Prashant Bhangui

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Institute of Liver Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine,Medanta-The Medicity,Sector 38,Gurgaon,Delhi NCR 122001,India

2024

国际肝胆胰疾病杂志(英文版)
浙江省医学学术交流管理中心,浙江大学医学院附属第一医院,浙江大学出版社有限责任公司

国际肝胆胰疾病杂志(英文版)

影响因子:0.668
ISSN:1499-3872
年,卷(期):2024.23(2)
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