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FEBRUARY 13 - 16, 2014

Poster Board Number C24

EPIDEMIOLOGY OF HEPATOCARCINOMA NOTES
IN TRANSILVANIA

Elena C. Rezi 1
1 Internal Medicine D epartment, Polisano Medical Centre, Sibiu, Romania

Corresponding author’s e-mail: crimuntean@yahoo.com

Introduction: Few studies have been done to establish the epidemiology of HCC in
Transylvania.
Aims: To study the prevalence of HCC in Transylvania.
Methodology: We have performed a retrospective study on a 7 years period of observation.
From the total of 7224 patients who were hospitalized on the Gastroenterology Department
of the Clinical Hospital from Sibiu, 80 were diagnosed with HCC.

Results: The HCC prevalence was 1.107% from the hospitalized patients. 75% from them
are from urban areas. The medium age of the patients from rural areas was 63.1 years,
comparing with 64.66 years at those from urban areas (p=0.3677). HHC affected patients
with hepatitis C virus more in urban areas than in rural (18.18% comparing with 10%).
15.15% from the HHC etiologies in the urban areas were alcohol-related, versus only 10%
in the rural areas. The medium size of the liver lesions at the patients from urban areas
was 6.782 cm, comparing with only 4.785 cm at the patients from rural areas (p=0.0457).

Conclusions: The prevalence of the HCC among the hospitalized patients from
CLINICAL POSTER ABSTRACTS or alcohol-related cirrhosis. CLINICAL POSTER ABSTRACTS
Transylvania is about 1.1%. The majority of the patients diagnosed with hepatocellular
cancer live in urban areas. In urban areas, HCC affects older patients with hepatitis C virus