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Comparison of Two Devices for Intraoperative Portal Venous Flow Measurement in Living-Donor Liver Transplantation:
H-K Wang1, C-Y Chen2, N-C Lin2
1Department of Radiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Background:
Intraoperative portal venous flow measurement provides surgeons with instant guidance for portal flow modulation during living-donor liver transplantation (LDLT). In this study, we compared the agreement of portal flow measurement obtained by 2 devices: transit time ultrasound (TTU) and conventional Doppler ultrasound (CDU).
Methods:
Fifty-four recipients of LDLT underwent intraoperative measurement of portal flow after completion of vascular anastomosis of the implanted partial liver graft. Both TTU and CDU were used concurrently. Agreement of TTU and CDU was assessed by intraclass correlation coefficient using a model of 2-way random effects, absolute agreement, and single measurement. A Bland-Altman plot was applied to assess the variability between the 2 devices.
Results:
The mean, median, and range of portal venous flow was 1456, 1418, and 117 to 2776 mL/min according to TTU; and 1564, 1566, and 119 to 3216 mL/min according to CDU. The intraclass correlation coefficient of portal venous flow between TTU and CDU was 0.68 (95% confidence interval, 0.51-0.80). The Bland-Altman plots revealed an average variation of 4.8% between TTU and CDU but with a rather wide 95% confidence interval of variation ranging from -57.7% to 67.4%.
Conclusions:
Intraoperative TTU and CDU showed moderate agreement in portal flow measurement. However, a relatively wide range of variation exists between TTU and CDU, indicating that data obtained from the 2 devices may not be interchangeable.
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