Prediction for Improvement of Liver Function after Balloon-Occluded Retrograde Transvenous Obliteration for Gastric Varices to Manage Portosystemic Shunt Syndrome
Prediction for Improvement of Liver Function after Balloon-Occluded Retrograde Transvenous Obliteration for Gastric Varices to Manage Portosystemic Shunt Syndrome
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DOI:
10.1016/j.jvir.2016.03.031
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发表时间:
2016-08-01
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Miki, Yukio
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作者:
Yamamoto, Akira;Nishida, Norifumi;Miki, Yukio
Purpose: To investigate predictive factors and cutoff value of transient elastography (TE) measurements for assessing improvement in liver function after balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration (BRTO) for gastric varices (GV).Materials and Methods: Retrospective analysis was performed of 50 consecutive patients followed for > 3 months after BRTO, who had undergone TE before BRTO between January 2011 and February 2015. The correlation between change in liver function (total bilirubin, albumin, and prothrombin time) and baseline liver function values and liver stiffness measurement (LSM) by TE was evaluated by Pearson correlation test. Receiver operating characteristic curves were used to determine cutoff values for discriminating between patients who had improved liver function and patients who did not. The time interval from BRTO to aggravation of esophageal varices (EV) (worsening morphology, development of new varices, or variceal rupture) grouped by cutoff values was also analyzed.Results: Serum albumin was significantly improved at 3 months after BRTO (3.57 g/dL vs 3.74 g/dL, P < .001). There was a significant negative correlation between change in albumin and baseline LSM (r = 0.50, P < .001). The best cutoff point for LSM was