ALB and hepatocellular carcinoma: The reason may be due to (1) the small sample (n = 19) of patients with Child‒Pugh > 5; (2) the improvement of albumin, ascites and other related indicators by conservative treatments; and (3) the fact that the Child‒Pugh class is only a stratification factor based on initial HCC diagnosis, and this indicator changed after surgery (n = 10) and LT (n = 4) in our study.