2021
Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses of Portal Vein Embolization, Associated Liver Partition and Portal Vein Ligation, and Radiation Lobectomy Outcomes in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Patients
Charalel RA, Sung J, Askin G, Jo J, Mitry M, Chung C, Tmanova L, Madoff DC. Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses of Portal Vein Embolization, Associated Liver Partition and Portal Vein Ligation, and Radiation Lobectomy Outcomes in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Patients. Current Oncology Reports 2021, 23: 135. PMID: 34716800, DOI: 10.1007/s11912-021-01075-1.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPortal vein embolizationAssociated liver partitionPortal vein ligationHepatocellular carcinoma patientsSystematic reviewVein embolizationCarcinoma patientsMajor complicationsPooled proportionVein ligationLiver partitionLow major complication rateMajor complication ratePurpose of ReviewToRandom-effects modelWeb of ScienceEffective hypertrophyFLR hypertrophyComplication rateOvid EmbaseCochrane LibraryHCC patientsLiver hypertrophyOvid MEDLINEInclusion criteria
2014
Bland embolization versus chemoembolization of hepatocellular carcinoma before transplantation
Kluger MD, Halazun KJ, Barroso RT, Fox AN, Olsen SK, Madoff DC, Siegel AB, Weintraub JL, Sussman J, Brown RS, Cherqui D, Emond JC. Bland embolization versus chemoembolization of hepatocellular carcinoma before transplantation. Liver Transplantation 2014, 20: 536-543. PMID: 24493271, PMCID: PMC4095977, DOI: 10.1002/lt.23846.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAdultAgedCarcinoma, HepatocellularCase-Control StudiesChemoembolization, TherapeuticDisease-Free SurvivalEnd Stage Liver DiseaseFemaleHumansKaplan-Meier EstimateLiver NeoplasmsLiver TransplantationMaleMiddle AgedNeoplasm Recurrence, LocalRetrospective StudiesTime FactorsTreatment OutcomeConceptsWait-list dropoutTAE patientsTACE patientsTransarterial embolizationTransarterial chemoembolizationHCC patientsEnd-stage liver disease (MELD) scoreSurvival rateRecurrence-free survival ratesMethods of embolizationRadiographic tumor sizeLiver Disease scoreOverall survival rateRecurrence-free survivalKaplan-Meier survivalBland transarterial embolizationCase-control studySignificant demographic differencesExplant tumorsPrimary endpointTreat basisTumor sizeHepatocellular carcinomaDisease scorePatients