Table 2.

Patients’ and tumor characteristics among recipients with and without recurring hepatocellular carcinoma

	Tumor recurrence (n = 20)	Recurrence-free (n = 111)	p
Age (years)	55 [29–64]	59 [34–70]	0.0255
Male gender (%)	65.0	78.4	0.2516
MELD score	10 [7–40]	11 [6–36]	0.3888
Etiology of liver disease			0.3226
Alcohol (%)	15.0	26.1
Hepatitis B (%)	30.0	12.6
Hepatitis C (%)	35.0	43.3
NASH (%)	10.0	10.8
Other (%)	10.0	4.5
Within Milan criteria (%)	35.0	53.2	0.1522
AFP pre-treatment (U/mL)	101.3 [3.6–7454.0]	14.2 [1.0–13,923.0]	0.0036
Poor differentiation G3 (%)	25.0	8.1	0.0402
Microvascular invasion V1 (%)	45.0	4.5	< 0.0001
Complete necrosis (%)	5.0	52.3	< 0.0001