2023
Hepatocellular Carcinoma Diagnosis and Management in 2021: A National Veterans Affairs Quality Improvement Project
Rogal S, Taddei T, Monto A, Yakovchenko V, Patton H, Merante M, Spoutz P, Chia L, Yudkevich J, Aytaman A, Rabiee A, John B, Blechacz B, Cai C, Gilles H, Shah A, McCurdy H, Puri P, Jou J, Mazhar K, Dominitz J, Anwar J, Morgan T, Ioannou G. Hepatocellular Carcinoma Diagnosis and Management in 2021: A National Veterans Affairs Quality Improvement Project. Clinical Gastroenterology And Hepatology 2023, 22: 324-338. PMID: 37460005, PMCID: PMC10788380, DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2023.07.002.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchGood performance statusCurative treatmentHCC screeningHCC diagnosisPerformance statusEarly-stage diagnosisMedical record extractionAdvanced liver diseaseReceipt of treatmentStage diagnosisPreventative health care servicesHepatocellular carcinoma stageVA primary careQuality improvement projectHealth care servicesHepatocellular carcinoma diagnosisElectronic health recordsCirrhosis careNoncurative treatmentLiver diseaseCancer screeningPrimary careMultivariable modelCarcinoma stageNew diagnosis
2020
Brief Report: Accuracy of FIB-4 for Cirrhosis in People Living With HIV and Hepatocellular Carcinoma.
Torgersen J, Kallan MJ, Carbonari DM, Park LS, Mehta RL, D'Addeo K, Tate JP, Lim JK, Goetz MB, Rodriguez-Barradas MC, Bräu N, Brown ST, Taddei TH, Justice AC, Lo Re V. Brief Report: Accuracy of FIB-4 for Cirrhosis in People Living With HIV and Hepatocellular Carcinoma. JAIDS Journal Of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 2020, 85: 530-534. PMID: 33185999, PMCID: PMC8353543, DOI: 10.1097/qai.0000000000002510.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSetting of HCCFIB-4Receiver-operating characteristic curveHepatocellular carcinomaHCC diagnosisPredictive valueVeterans Aging Cohort StudyEvidence of cirrhosisSetting of HIVAbsence of cirrhosisFIB-4 scoreFibrosis-4 indexIncident hepatocellular carcinomaMedical record reviewPrevalence of cirrhosisAging Cohort StudyCross-sectional studyCharacteristic curveNegative predictive valuePositive predictive valueCirrhosis statusCohort studyMechanisms of carcinogenesisRecord reviewPlatelet countAssessing the Impact of Referral on Multidisciplinary Tumor Board Outcomes in Patients With Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Zhang Y, Weinreb J, Czeyda-Pommersheim F, Taddei T. Assessing the Impact of Referral on Multidisciplinary Tumor Board Outcomes in Patients With Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Journal Of The American College Of Radiology 2020, 17: 1636-1643. PMID: 32533924, DOI: 10.1016/j.jacr.2020.05.003.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMultidisciplinary liver tumor boardTertiary care institutionHepatocellular carcinomaImpact of referralHCC casesCare institutionsInitial suspicionDecreased health care costsDiagnosis of HCCIncident HCC casesUnnecessary diagnostic proceduresHealth care costsChart reviewConsensus of expertsInitial careOptimal treatmentTumor boardAmerican CollegeHCC diagnosisPatientsUnique cancerCare costsOutside institutionDiagnostic proceduresReferralSurvival Benefit of Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma.
Kanneganti M, Mahmud N, Kaplan DE, Taddei TH, Goldberg DS. Survival Benefit of Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Transplantation 2020, 104: 104-112. PMID: 31283688, PMCID: PMC6928443, DOI: 10.1097/tp.0000000000002816.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsIncremental survival benefitLiver transplantSurvival benefitHepatocellular carcinomaEnd-stage liver disease (MELD) scoreOverall long-term survivalIntermediate-stage hepatocellular carcinomaLiver Disease scoreRetrospective cohort studyStage hepatocellular carcinomaHazard of deathVeterans Health AdministrationImmortal time biasLong-term survivalUnderwent resectionLiver transplantationAnalytic cohortCohort studyCurative optionMultivariable modelHCC diagnosisDisease scoreResectionPatientsHealth Administration
2018
Sorafenib prescribed by gastroenterologists and hepatologists for hepatocellular carcinoma
Kaplan DE, Mehta R, D’Addeo K, Valderrama A, Taddei TH. Sorafenib prescribed by gastroenterologists and hepatologists for hepatocellular carcinoma. Medicine 2018, 97: e9757. PMID: 29369224, PMCID: PMC5794408, DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000009757.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAdvanced hepatocellular carcinomaHepatocellular carcinomaOverall survivalBarcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) systemManagement of HCCVeterans Health Administration hospitalsRetrospective cohort studyFirst-line therapySimilar survival outcomesChild-TurcottePugh scoreComorbidity indexChart abstractionCohort studySurvival benefitSystemic therapyBCLC stagePrimary outcomePrescriber typeSurvival outcomesAdministration HospitalMultivariable modelProvider specialtyCancer stagingHCC diagnosis