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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Liver Transpl. 2022 Sep 5;28(12):1865–1875. doi: 10.1002/lt.26562

Table 2:

Clinical outcomes, stratified by LR-3 vs. LR-4 category

8h Number of Observations HCC at 6 months (%) HCC at 12 months (%) Total Proportion with HCC Total Proportion with LR4 Median time to HCC (months) % Downgraded
LR-3 Observations
Choi 2013 69 1.4% 4.3% 4.3% 1.4% 16.0%
Tang 2019 53 30.2% 32.1% 6.1 (IQR 4.6 – 13.1)
Ojeda 2021 20.4% 24.5% 8.0% 6.4
Tanabe 2016 166 0% 1.2% 4.2% 4.8% 68.0%
Hong 2019 186 7.0% 11.0% 8.6% 17.7% 16.0%
Arvind 2022 458 5.1% 12.5% 24.1%
Agnello 2020 55 1.8% 9.1% 30.9% 5.5% 27.2 (range 5.3-56.1) 52.0%
Kim 2020 38 5.3% 4.4% 15.8%
Smereka 2020 257 44.4%
Ranathunga 2022 36 11.1% 22.2% 25.0 – 30.6%
Tang 2017 57 36.5% 45.9
Xing 2018 71 18.3% 8.5% 25.4%
LR-4 Observations
Tang 2019 37 56.8% N/A 4.7 (IQR 2.5 – 14.5)
Sofue 2017 181 30.9% N/A 5.1 42.0%
Tanabe 2016 52 28.8% 30.8% 36.5% N/A 17.0%
Hong 2019 133 32.0% 44.0% 33.1% N/A 20.0%
Agnello 2020 19 10.5% 31.6% 42.1% N/A 19.4 (range 3.2 - 65.5) 37.0%
Kim 2020 68 35.3% 39.7% 54.4% N/A
Smereka 2020 83 69.9% N/A
Tang 2017 38 71.0% N/A 10.9
Xing 2018 32 46.9% N/A 6.3%