Osamu Aramaki, Tadatoshi Takayama, Yutaka Matsuyama, Shoji Kubo, Norihiro Kokudo, Masayuki Kurosaki, Takamichi Murakami, Shuichiro Shiina, Masatoshi Kudo, Michiie Sakamoto, Osamu Nakashima, Takumi Fukumoto, Hiroko Iijima, Susumu Eguchi, Yuji Soejima, Masatoshi Makuuchi
AIM: Although Makuuchi's criteria are widely used to determine the cutoff for safe liver resection, there have been few reports of concrete data supporting their validity. Here, we verified the utility of Makuuchi's criteria by comparing the operative mortality rates associated with liver resection between hepatocellular carcinoma patients meeting or exceeding the criteria. METHODS: A database was built using data from 15597 patients treated between 2000 and 2007 for whom values for all three variables included in Makuuchi's criteria for liver resection (clinical ascites, serum bilirubin, and indocyanine green clearance) were available...
October 1, 2022: Hepatology Research: the Official Journal of the Japan Society of Hepatology