1. Challenges to Liver Transplantation and Strategies to Improve Outcomes
Philipp Dutkowski, Michael Linecker, Michelle L. DeOliveira, Beat Müllhaupt, Pierre-Alain Clavien 
Gastroenterology 
Volume 148, Issue 2, Pages (February 2015)
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2. Figure 1
Five-year patient - and graft survival for the most common indications for LT as reported by the European Transplant registry (ELTR).2 Data for perihilar carcinoma (PHC) is obtained from 12 US centers.58
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3. Figure 2
Mayo clinic treatment scheme and outcome of patients receiving neoadjuvant treatment followed by LT for PHC. Of the 247 patients with neoadjuvant treatment, 64% could proceed to LT resulting in a five-year survival of 69%. Figure courtesy Prof. C. Rosen.
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4. Figure 3
One year mortality after LT in relation to the balance of risk (BAR)-score.116 While post-transplant mortality remains below or equal 20% up to BAR score of 18, the risk to die after LT increases exponentially above BAR 18.
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