Caval reconstruction techniques in orthotopic liver transplantation

Table 8 Comparison of piggyback and conventional in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma

	Conventional	Piggyback	P-value
n	19, 14%	119, 86%
Age (yr) (mean, median, range)	52, 52, 41-66	57, 57, 21-73	0.09
MELD at transplant (mean, median, range)	21, 22, 8-30	20, 22, 6-36	0.02
Total cold ischemia time (h) (mean, median, range)	8, 8, 4-13	7, 7, 3-17	0.03
Total warm ischemia time (min) (mean, median, range)	56, 59, 29-78	38, 29, 18-103	< 0.001
Outside milan criteria	15.80%	33.60%	0.18
Tumor number (mean, median, range)	2, 1, 1-4+	2, 1, 1-4+	0.6
Maximum tumor size (mean, median, range)	2.6, 2.7, 0.4-8.0	3.2, 3.0, 0.4-8.2	0.09
Tumor location bilateral	15.80%	24.40%	0.41
Lymphovascular invasion	21.10%	14.30%	0.49
Chemoembolization	10.50%	37.80%	0.02
1-yr overall survival	89.50%	83.20%	0.49
2-yr overall survival	84.20%	75.90%	0.55
Any HCC recurrence	5.30%	14.30%	0.47

Adapted from Mangus et al[51]. HCC: Hepatocellular carcinoma; MELD: Model for end stage liver disease.