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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hepatology. 2018 Apr 19;67(6):2085–2095. doi: 10.1002/hep.29723

Figure 3. Change in life years by UNOS region if HCV-negative patients on the transplant waiting list are willing to accept any liver versus accept only HCV-negative livers.

Figure 3

Patients benefit from becoming open to accepting an HCV-positive liver at MELD 20 and beyond, irrespective of the UNOS region, although the magnitude of benefit varied by region.

Abbreviations: UNOS, United Network for Organ Sharing, MELD, model for end-stage liver disease; HCV, hepatitis C virus