ArticleWorld journal of surgery2017
Combined Preoperative Portal and Hepatic Vein Embolization (Biembolization) to Improve Liver Regeneration Before Major Liver Resection: A Preliminary Report.
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- CIRSE Standards of Practice on Portal Vein Embolization and Double Vein Embolization/Liver Venous Deprivation.Cardiovascular and interventional radiology · 2024Guideline
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- Precision in Liver Surgery: A Comparative Analysis of Volumetry Techniques.Annals of surgical oncology · 2025Article
- Combined Portal and Hepatic Vein Embolization Produces Greater Hypertrophy than Portal Vein Embolization Alone with Similar Post-Hepatectomy Outcomes and is not Impacted by Hepatic Artery Infusion Chemotherapy.Annals of surgical oncology · 2025Article
- Liver venous deprivation (LVD) before extended hepatectomy: a French multicentric retrospective cohort.Hepatobiliary surgery and nutrition · 2024Article
- Comprehensive Review of Future Liver Remnant (FLR) Assessment and Hypertrophy Techniques Before Major Hepatectomy: How to Assess and Manage the FLR.Annals of surgical oncology · 2024Review
- Simultaneous embolization of the right portal and hepatic veins before intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma resection.Einstein (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2024Article
- Liver Venous Deprivation Using Amplatzer Vascular Plug-Assisted N-Butyl Cyanoacrylate Embolization of the Portal and Hepatic Veins: How Do I Do it?Seminars in interventional radiology · 2023Review
- Liver Venous Deprivation (LVD) Versus Portal Vein Embolization (PVE) Alone Prior to Extended Hepatectomy: A Matched Pair Analysis.Cardiovascular and interventional radiology · 2022Article
- Portal vein embolization: rationale, techniques, outcomes and novel strategies.Hepatic oncology · 2021Review
- Current strategies to induce liver remnant hypertrophy before major liver resection.World journal of hepatology · 2021Review
- Induction of liver hypertrophy for extended liver surgery and partial liver transplantation: State of the art of parenchyma augmentation-assisted liver surgery.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2021Review
- Simultaneous portal and hepatic vein embolization before major liver resection.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2021Review
- Ipsilateral access portal venous embolization (PVE) for preoperative hypertrophy exhibits low complication rates in Clavien-Dindo and CIRSE scales.CVIR endovascular · 2021Article
- Debate: Improvements in Systemic Therapies for Liver Metastases Will Increase the Role of Locoregional Treatments.Surgical oncology clinics of North America · 2021Review
- Deportalization, Venous Congestion, Venous Deprivation: Serial Measurements of Volumes and Functions on Morphofunctional 99mTc-Mebrofenin SPECT-CT.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Liver venous deprivation versus portal vein embolization before major hepatectomy: future liver remnant volumetric and functional changes.Hepatobiliary surgery and nutrition · 2020Article
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- Improving the Safety of Major Resection for Hepatobiliary Malignancy: Portal Vein Embolization and Recent Innovations in Liver Regeneration Strategies.Current oncology reports · 2020Review
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Abstract
backgroundInsufficient volume of the future liver remnant (FLR) is a major cause of non-resectable disease in patients presenting with primary or metastatic liver tumours. The objective of this study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the combined preoperative portal and hepatic vein embolization (biembolization) before extended right liver resections.
methodsThis retrospective study was performed in a tertiary centre between 2014 and 2015. Combined right portal and hepatic vein embolization (biembolization) was proposed, as an alternative to ALPPS procedure, for all patients with primary or metastatic liver tumour, before right extended hepatectomy. CT scan liver volumetry was assessed before biembolization, three weeks after biembolization and one week after surgery.
resultsSeven patients underwent biembolization. All patients had right portal vein embolization (PVE) combined with right hepatic vein embolization (HVE, n = 4), median HVE (n = 2) and right + median HVE (n = 1). Three patients had preoperative liver disease and two received preoperative chemotherapy. No biembolization procedure-related complications occurred. The mean FLR regeneration rate was 52.6% (range: 18.2-187.9) after the biembolization. One patient with gallbladder carcinoma was not operated because of peritoneal carcinomatosis diagnosed after the biembolization. The remnant six patients did not develop postoperative liver failure.
conclusionsBiembolization seems to induce safe, reproducible and effective FLR growth before extended right hepatectomy, in patients with primary or metastatic liver tumour.
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