Examines whether pretransplant albumin-to-globulin ratio improves long-term survival and recurrence prediction after liver transplantation for HCC.
Key Takeaways
- Development cohort included 254 adults undergoing first liver transplantation for pathologically confirmed HCC
- Five nutritional indices were compared using Kaplan-Meier estimates, Cox regression, and restricted cubic splines
- Time-dependent ROC curves included bootstrap 95% confidence intervals