Keywords:
Neoplasia, Cirrhosis, Chemoembolisation, Ablation procedures, Ultrasound, Percutaneous, Catheter arteriography, Liver, Interventional vascular, Interventional non-vascular
Authors:
B. Horwitz, P. Vargas, J. P. Niedmann, G. P. Zamboni, D. Hasson, A. Vicentela; Santiago de Chile/CL
DOI:
10.26044/ecr2019/C-2010
Conclusion
We present the characteristics and results of the patients treated for HCC through TACE of percutaneous ablation in our institution.
In our population,
the majority of patients were men with a mean age of 67 years,
similar to the demographic characteristics found in other studies [3].
The most frequent cause of cirrhosis in our patients was nonalcoholic steatohepatitis,
which differs from the series by Zheng et al.
[4] and by Morales [5],
which had C hepatitis infection as the most frequent cause.
The SIR establishes a suggested threshold for common complications of TACE in its QIG [2].
Among these,
we evaluated our major complications rate and found them to be below these thresholds.
The SIR QIG recommends a preprocedure imaging interval of less than 30 days,
and a post-procedure imaging interval of approximately 30 days.
While our post-procedure interval is similar to the SIR QIG,
our preprocedure interval is higher (a median of 90 days).
We attribute this to our institution being a tertiary care center,
thus receiving patients from diverse backgrounds.