"Liver Transplantation for Patients with Hepatitis Delta Cirrhosis and Active Replicating Hepatitis B have a Poor Outcome."

According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the 46th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, held November 3-7, 1995, in Chicago, Illinois, "Liver transplantation for hepatitis B virus (HBV) related liver disease is complicated by HBV recurrence and, consequently, poor patient and graft survival. Patients transplanted for hepatitis delta virus (HDV) with cirrhosis are reported to have a diminished incidence of hepatitis B recurrence and improved graft survival. Only a few of these reported HDV-infected patients had active HBV replicative disease before liver transplantation. In our experience, we transplanted two HDV-infected patients, both...

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