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Laparoscopic liver resection in cirrhotic patients with specific reference to a difficulty scoring system

Authors: Hiroki Uchida, Yukio Iwashita, Kazuhiro Tada, Kunihiro Saga, Hiroomi Takayama, Teijiro Hirashita, Yuichi Endo, Masayuki Ohta, Masafumi Inomata

Published in: Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery | Issue 3/2018

Abstract

Purpose

Laparoscopic liver resection is widely used for liver tumors, but its utility in patients with cirrhosis remains controversial. The aim of this study was to assess the surgical outcomes of laparoscopic liver resection in patients with liver cirrhosis with specific reference to a difficulty scoring system.

Methods

From January 2010 to March 2016, the outcomes of laparoscopic liver resection in 95 patients were retrospectively reviewed. Surgical outcomes were analyzed to identify differences between the liver cirrhosis and non-liver cirrhosis groups; these groups were further stratified to high and low difficulty scores. The surgical outcomes of both groups were compared according to the difficulty scores.

Results

Overall, 53/95 (55.8%) patients were diagnosed with liver cirrhosis. There were no significant differences in surgical duration, blood loss, postoperative hospital stay, and morbidity between groups, although liver function was worse in the liver cirrhosis group than in the non-liver cirrhosis group. Multivariate analysis showed that the difficulty score was an independent predictor of increased blood loss. In particular, blood loss in cirrhotic patients was significantly greater with a high difficulty score than with a low difficulty score.

Conclusions

The safety profile of laparoscopic liver resection was the same in patients with and without liver cirrhosis. However, patients with liver cirrhosis and a high difficulty score require extra attention, because of a higher risk for perioperative blood loss.

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Title: Laparoscopic liver resection in cirrhotic patients with specific reference to a difficulty scoring system
Authors: Hiroki Uchida
Yukio Iwashita
Kazuhiro Tada
Kunihiro Saga
Hiroomi Takayama
Teijiro Hirashita
Yuichi Endo
Masayuki Ohta
Masafumi Inomata
Publication date: 01-05-2018
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery / Issue 3/2018
Print ISSN: 1435-2443
Electronic ISSN: 1435-2451
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00423-018-1671-4

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Laparoscopic liver resection in cirrhotic patients with specific reference to a difficulty scoring system

Abstract

Purpose

Methods

Results

Conclusions

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