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Correlation of clinical features with inferior right hepatic vein incidence: a three-dimensional reconstruction-based
Yufei Yang1, Tongwen Guan2, Yanjun Si3
1Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The Sixth People's Hospital of Chengdu, Chengdu City, 610051, China.
Purpose:
The correlation between right hepatic vein (RHV) diameter and inferior RHV (IRHV) incidence and that between IRHV incidence and other clinical features remain unclear. We investigated factors correlated with IRHV incidence as well as provide a simple and reliable method for predicting IRHV presence preoperatively.
Methods:
We obtained computed tomography (CT) imaging data of 1980 patients from the Department of Radiology, Qingdao Municipal Hospital, from July 1, 2016, to July 1, 2017. We excluded patients with heart disease, inferior vena cava (IVC) disease, history of liver surgery or trauma, space-occupying lesions in the liver, and other diseases, which can cause hepatic hemodynamic changes. CT images of patients were three-dimensionally reconstructed. We measured RHV and IRHV diameter as well as the angle between the RHV and the IVC.
Results:
Data on 299 patients were included in this study; the incidence of IRHV was 34.44%. Sex, age, and the angle between the RHV and IVC did not correlate with IRHV incidence. RHV diameter negatively correlated with IRHV incidence (P < 0.05). The area under the receiver-operating characteristic curve for IRHV incidence was 0.878. The diagnostic threshold value of RHV diameter was 8.86 mm.
Conclusion:
A negative correlation was found between RHV diameter and IRHV incidence, suggesting that IRHV is absent with RHV diameter > 8.86 mm, but is present with RHV diameter < 8.86 mm. This suggests that measuring only RHV diameter can predict the presence of an IRHV when IRHV-related hepatectomy and IRHV preserved living donor liver transplantation are needed.
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