Kinetics of liver volume changes in the first year after portal vein embolization. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • OBJECTIVE: To determine the time course of liver hypertrophy after portal vein embolization (PVE). DESIGN: In a cohort study, computed tomography volumetrics were calculated for livers during a 1-year period after PVE. SETTING: Tertiary liver cancer treatment center. PATIENTS: Ten patients who were subjected to PVE and were found subsequently to not be candidates for liver resection. INTERVENTION: Right PVE. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Left and right liver volumes. RESULTS: The left liver continued growing for the entire first year after PVE, while the right liver continued to atrophy. The total volume remained remarkably constant. CONCLUSION: Early PVE during administration of a course of neoadjuvant therapy would be beneficial for enhanced growth of the liver before liver resection.

publication date

  • April 1, 2010

Research

keywords

  • Adenocarcinoma
  • Embolization, Therapeutic
  • Liver
  • Liver Neoplasms
  • Portal Vein

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 77951457646

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1001/archsurg.2010.42

PubMed ID

  • 20404285

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 145

issue

  • 4