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Follow-Up Liver Stiffness Measurements after Liver Resection Influence Oncologic Outcomes of Hepatitis-B-Associated Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Liver Cirrhosis

Authors
 Jung Il Lee  ;  Hyun Woong Lee  ;  Seung Up Kim  ;  Sang Hoon Ahn  ;  Kwan Sik Lee 
Citation
 CANCERS, Vol.11(3) : E425, 2019 
Journal Title
CANCERS
Issue Date
2019
Abstract
The severity of liver fibrosis can be noninvasively evaluated by measuring liver stiffness (LS) using transient elastography. This study aimed to evaluate the prognostic value of achieving low liver stiffness measurement (LSM) in patients with cirrhosis confirmed from the resected liver due to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). A total of 184 patients that received curative surgery for HCC related to the hepatitis B virus at Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer stage 0⁻A, and had a METAVIR fibrosis score of 4 were investigated. LSM significantly decreased after antiviral therapy during follow-up (p = 0.001), and achieving LSM ≤8 kilopascal (kPa) suggested a reduced risk of late recurrence (>12 months) (hazard ratio (HR), 0.519; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.307⁻0.877; p = 0.014). Older age at surgery (≥45 years) and multiple HCC nodules predicted an increased risk of late recurrence (HR, 3.270; 95% CI, 1.296⁻8.251; p = 0.012; and HR, 3.146; 95% CI, 1.396⁻7.089; p = 0.006). Decreased LSM also suggested decreased mortality (HR, 0.251; 95% CI, 0.086⁻0.756; p = 0.045) along with baseline low aspartate aminotransferase-to-platelet ratio index (APRI) score (<1.5) (HR, 0.251; 95% CI, 0.086⁻0.759; p = 0.041). Having early HCC recurrence (HR, 9.416; 95% CI, 3.566⁻24.861; p < 0.001) and microvascular tumor invasion (HR, 3.191; 95% CI, 1.188⁻8.568; p = 0.021) predicted increased mortality. Among HCC patients with liver cirrhosis under antiviral therapy, achieving low LSM (≤8 kPa) predicted reduced late HCC recurrence.
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DOI
10.3390/cancers11030425
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1. College of Medicine (의과대학) > Dept. of Internal Medicine (내과학교실) > 1. Journal Papers
Yonsei Authors
Kim, Seung Up(김승업) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9658-8050
Ahn, Sang Hoon(안상훈) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3629-4624
Lee, Kwan Sik(이관식) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3672-1198
Lee, Jung Il(이정일) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0142-1398
Lee, Hyun Woong(이현웅) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6958-3035
URI
https://ir.ymlib.yonsei.ac.kr/handle/22282913/169405
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