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Assessment of Liver Stiffness Measurement: Novel Intraoperative Blood Loss Predictor?

Authors
 Min-Soo Kim  ;  Jeong-Rim Lee 
Citation
 WORLD JOURNAL OF SURGERY, Vol.37(1) : 185-191, 2013 
Journal Title
WORLD JOURNAL OF SURGERY
ISSN
 0364-2313 
Issue Date
2013
MeSH
Blood Loss, Surgical* ; Elasticity Imaging Techniques* ; Female ; Hepatectomy* ; Humans ; Liver/diagnostic imaging* ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Predictive Value of Tests ; Retrospective Studies
Keywords
International Normalize Ratio ; Liver Fibrosis ; Liver Surgery ; Transient Elastography ; Liver Stiffness Measurement
Abstract
BACKGROUND:
The risks of massive intraoperative blood loss are of major concern during liver surgery. Various predictors of massive intraoperative blood loss were reported for identifying patients preoperatively with high risk of suffering massive intraoperative blood loss during liver surgery. The assessment of the extent of fibrosis may be a way to predict the risk of the intraoperative blood loss in patients undergoing liver surgery. Liver stiffness measurement by transient elastography is a noninvasive method for assessing liver fibrosis in patients with chronic liver disease. The purpose of this retrospective, single-center study was to assess a correlation between liver stiffness measurement and intraoperative blood loss during liver surgery for determining the role of liver stiffness measurement as a predictor of intraoperative blood loss.
METHODS:
A total of 45 patients who underwent elective right hepatectomy from August 2007 to July 2011 were selected. Liver stiffness measurement, tumor size, intraoperative data, and perioperative laboratory data were retrospectively investigated. Correlation analysis was used to find the correlations between variables.
RESULTS:
Among the 45 patients enrolled in this study, 43 were ultimately investigated. A statistically positive correlation was found between the intraoperative blood loss and the median liver stiffness measurements (r = 0.420, p = 0.005).
CONCLUSIONS:
The liver stiffness measurement is a possible predictor of intraoperative blood loss through the correlation between liver stiffness measurement and the intraoperative blood loss during right hepatectomy.
Full Text
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00268-012-1774-y
DOI
10.1007/s00268-012-1774-y
Appears in Collections:
1. College of Medicine (의과대학) > Dept. of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine (마취통증의학교실) > 1. Journal Papers
Yonsei Authors
Kim, Min Soo(김민수) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8760-4568
Lee, Jeong Rim(이정림) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7425-0462
URI
https://ir.ymlib.yonsei.ac.kr/handle/22282913/86310
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