Characteristics and outcome of anti-hepatitis D virus positive patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.
Edoardo Giovanni GianniniAndrea PastaGiulia PieriMaria Corina Plaz TorresMariarosaria MarsegliaFilippo PelizzaroAngelo SangiovanniGiuseppe CabibboGiorgia GhittoniMariella Di MarcoFrancesco Giuseppe FoschiMaria GuarinoElisabetta BiasiniCarlo SaittaClaudia CampaniGianluca Svegliati-BaroniAntonio GasbarriniMaurizia Rossana BrunettoDonatella MagalottiFrancesco AzzaroliAndrea MegaRodolfo SaccoGerardo NardoneDavid SacerdotiAlberto MasottoGianpaolo VidiliLaura BucciAlessandro VitaleFranco Trevisaninull nullPublished in: Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver (2024)
In patients with HBV/HDV, HCC is diagnosed more frequently during surveillance, resulting in a less advanced cancer stage in patients with more deranged liver function than HBV alone. Patients with HBV/HDV have a heightened benefit from liver transplantation, positively influencing survival.