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Volume 22, Number 3—March 2016

Letter

Trends in Liver Transplantation in Hepatitis C Virus–Infected Persons, United States

Ryan B. PerumpailComments to Author , Robert J. Wong, Andy Liu, Channa R. Jayasekera, Douglas T. Dieterich, Zobair M. Younossi, and Aijaz Ahmed
Author affiliations: Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA (R.B. Perumpail, A. Ahmed); Highland Hospital, Oakland, California, USA (R.J. Wong); Albert Einstein School of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA (A. Liu); California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California, USA (C.R. Jayasekera); Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA (D.T. Dieterich); Inova Fairfax Hospital Center for Liver Diseases, Falls Church, Virginia, USA (Z.M. Younossi); Inova Health System Betty and Guy Beatty Center for Integrated Research, Falls Church (Z.M. Younossi)

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Table

Liver transplant waitlist additions and liver transplant recipients, United States*

Liver transplant recipients
Birth cohort total 1,677 (48.9) 2,926 (63.7) 4,324 (71.2) 4,475 (78.1)
HCV 598 (17.4) 1,416 (30.8) 2,004 (33.0) 2,029 (35.4)
Non-HCV 1,079 (31.5) 1,510 (32.9) 2,320 (38.2) 2,446 (42.7)
Non–birth cohort total 1,751 (51.1) 1,667 (36.3) 1,747 (28.8) 1,256 (21.9)
HCV 396 (11.6) 393 (8.6) 309 (5.1) 208 (3.6)
Non-HCV 1,355 (39.5) 1,274 (27.7) 1,438 (23.7) 1,048 (18.3)
Total 3,428 (100.0) 4,593 (100.0) 6,071 (100.0) 5,731 (100.0)

*HCV, hepatitis C virus.
†US adults born during 1945–1965.

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