Hepatectomy for hepatocellular carcinoma in a renal transplant patient--report of a case and literature review

Hepatogastroenterology. 2000 May-Jun;47(33):835-8.

Abstract

A 45-year-old woman underwent hepatectomy for hepatocellular carcinoma developing after 2 renal transplants. She had a solitary hepatocellular carcinoma and central bisegmentectomy of the liver was performed. Administration of immunosuppressants was continued to maintain renal function in the perioperative period. Although our patient suffered from severe pneumonia postoperatively, she recovered without a decline in renal function. She has been alive for 1 year and 3 months after hepatectomy with hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence in the remnant liver. Any patient undergoing hepatectomy for hepatocellular carcinoma after renal transplantation should be managed as an immunocompromised host. Previously reported cases of hepatectomy for hepatocellular carcinoma in renal transplant recipients were reviewed.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / complications*
  • Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / surgery*
  • Female
  • Hepatectomy*
  • Humans
  • Immunocompromised Host
  • Kidney Failure, Chronic / complications*
  • Kidney Failure, Chronic / surgery*
  • Kidney Transplantation* / immunology
  • Liver Neoplasms / complications*
  • Liver Neoplasms / surgery*
  • Middle Aged
  • Neoplasm Recurrence, Local