Is Partial-ALPPS Safer Than ALPPS? A Single-center Experience
Is Partial-ALPPS Safer Than ALPPS? A Single-center Experience
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DOI:
10.1097/sla.0000000000001087
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发表时间:
2015-04-01
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9
通讯作者:
Clavien, Pierre-Alain
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作者:
Petrowsky, Henrik;Gyoeri, Georg;Clavien, Pierre-Alain
The recent introduction of associating liver partition and portal vein ligation for staged hepatectomy (ALPPS) into the clinical practice of hepatobiliary surgery has offered a novel and promising treatment strategy for patients with a variety of primarily nonresectable hepatic tumors. 1, 2 Despite the great potential of ALPPS in triggering rapid hypertrophy of parts of the liver, the main concern is the safety of the procedure. For example, the reported mortality in the initial series from Germany was 12% 2 and 15% in a subsequent multicentric analysis, 3 reaching even 27% in experienced hepatobiliary centers. 4 Such figures have triggered the search for better selection criteria and/or technical modification enabling safer surgery. A recently published analysis of the international ALPPS registry including 202 patients revealed an in-hospital mortality rate of 9% and a severe complication (grade≥ 3b) 5 rate of 28%. 6 The risk analysis of this cohort suggested that older patients (> 60 years of age) and those with noncolorectal liver tumors had poorer prognosis. 6 To better understand the underlying mechanisms and associated harms, we have developed an experimental model of ALPPS that showed that accelerated regeneration in ALPPS is not solely related to parenchymal transection and discontinuation of blood supply between the 2 parts of the liver but mostly due to an “inflammatorylike reaction” leading to enhanced hepatocyte growth. 7 This finding was substantiated by a similar effect on liver regeneration for portal vein ligation associated with kidney, lung, or spleen injuries instead of hepatic transection. Also, we observed in the experimental model that partial (75%–80%) transection of the liver triggered a comparable degree of regeneration of the future liver remnant (FLR) when compared with complete transection. Aside with these novel experimental findings, we have generated the hypothesis, from our early clinical experience, that complete transection of the parenchyma may enhance postoperative liver injury, for example, by causing congestion of the “deportalized” part of the liver. On the basis of our experimental and clinical observations, we developed a new strategy, introduced in 2013 at our institution, to switch from complete transection to a well-defined partial transection (> 50% of the transection surface). The rationale behind this idea was our hypothesis that partial ALPPS is safer and achieves similar rapid hypertrophy. This report presents our experience with partial transection, labeled as partial-ALPPS (both abbreviated as p-ALPPS), compared with ALPPS looking at hypertrophy of the FLR and postoperative outcome. We performed 24 ALPPS procedures in noncirrhotic and noncholestatic patients without major extrahepatic surgery at stage 1