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Table 1 Patients’ and donor characteristics

From: Bridging treatment prior to liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma: radioembolization or transarterial chemoembolization?

 

Radioembolization (n = 44)

TACE

(n = 87)

p

Age (years)

60 [37–70]

59 [29–69]

0.1558

Male gender (%)

84.1

72.4

0.1915

MELD score

12 [6–40]

10 [6-30]

0.0204

Etiology of liver disease

0.0434

 Alcohol (%)

27.3

23.0

 Hepatitis B (%)

18.2

13.8

 Hepatitis C (%)

25.0

50.6

 NASH (%)

18.2

6.9

 Other (%)

11.3

5.7

Within Milan criteria (%)

20.5

65.5

 < 0.0001

AFP pre-treatment (IU/mL)

22.5 [2.1–13,923.0]

14.9 [1.5–9860.0]

0.5369

Number of treatments

1 [1, 2]

1 [1-7]

0.0007

Donor risk index

1.740 [1.082–2.484]

1.680 [0.9420–2.992]

0.2734