Liver Decompensation Risk after Hepatectomy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC)

Vincenzo Mazzaferro, MD, is a professor of medicine and director of the Gastrointestinal and Hepato-Pancreatic Surgery and Liver Transplantation Unit at the Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori in Milan, Italy. He is an avid researcher of liver transplantation and studies treatment of metastatic cancers to the liver and novel treatments of tumors. Dr. Mazzaferro’s research group was responsible for the development of the Milan Criteria, which has been adopted as a transplant guideline in many countries.