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J Cancer 2021; 12(6):1770-1778. doi:10.7150/jca.50371 This issue Cite

Research Paper

Preoperative Portal Vein Embolization for Liver Resection: An updated meta-analysis

Yu Huang^1,2,3,4,5#, Wenhao Ge^1,2,3,4,5#, Yang Kong^1,2,3,4,5, Yuan Ding^1,2,3,4,5, Bingqiang Gao^1,2,3,4,5, Xiaohui Qian^1,2,3,4,5, Weilin Wang^1,2,3,4,5

1. Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310009.
2. Key Laboratory of Precision Diagnosis and Treatment for Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Tumor of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310009.
3. Research Center of Diagnosis and Treatment Technology for Hepatocellular Carcinoma of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310009.
4. Clinical Medicine Innovation Center of Precision Diagnosis and Treatment for Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Disease of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310009.
5. Clinical Research Center of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Diseases of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310009.
#These authors contributed equally to this work.

✉ Corresponding author: Weilin Wang, Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, No. 88 Jiefang Road, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, 310009; E-mail: wamedu.cn; Tel: +86 0571 87783820; Fax: +86 0571 87068001. More

Abstract

Background: Portal vein embolization (PVE) is performed before major liver resection to increase liver volume remnant, controversy remains on the adverse effect of PVE on liver tumor patients. The current study highlighted the effect of PVE on the degree of hypertrophy of future liver remnant (FLR) and summarized PVE-related complications, aiming to provide a guideline for surgeons.

Methods: A search of current published studies on PVE was performed. Meta-analysis was conducted to assess the effect of PVE on hypertrophy of FLR and summarized PVE-related complications.

Results: 26 studies including 2335 patients were enrolled in the meta-analysis. All enrolled studies reported data regarding FLR hypertrophy rate, pooled effect size (ES) for FLR hypertrophy rate using a fixed-effect model was 0.105 (95%CI: 0.094-0.117, p=0.000), indicating PVE is favored in inducing FLR hypertrophy. Metatrim method indicated no obvious evidence of publication bias in the present meta-analysis. 247 (10.6%) patients exhibited PVE-related complications, receiving expectant treatment without affecting planned liver resection. Total 1782 patients (76%) underwent a subsequent liver resection after PVE, which is an encouraging result comparing with traditional resection rate in liver tumor patients.

Conclusions: PVE is a safe and effective procedure with a low occurrence of related complications for inducing sufficient hypertrophy of FLR in liver tumor patients, which could elevate the resection rate of liver tumor patients. Careful patient cohort selection is crucial to avoid overuse of PVE in technically resectable patients. Further multiple central clinical trials are conducive to select optimal patient cohorts and provide a guideline for surgeons.

Keywords: portal vein embolization, liver tumor, future liver remnant, liver regeneration, liver resection

Introduction

Liver resection remains the gold standard treatment offering both potential cure and long-term survival to patients with either primary or secondary liver tumors [1,2]. The aim of resection is to offer a curative effect with reservation of a sufficient future liver remnant (FLR) to maintain basic liver function at the same time in patients with liver tumors [3,4]. Unfortunately, at the time of diagnosis, only <25% of patients are suitable for surgical resection [5]. Meanwhile, the resection rate for the liver tumor is just 20%-30% in patients with normal livers even reduced in patients with cirrhotic liver. For up to 45% of liver tumor patients, an extended liver resection is imperative to achieve absolute clear resection margins [6]. One of the reasons for aforementioned unresectability is that the remnant liver is insufficient to support postoperative liver function [7]. Postoperative liver failure is still one of the main causes of death following major liver resection, ranging from 0 to 30%, with insufficient FLR being a limiting factor [4]. In literature, postoperative liver failure is directly associated with the volume of liver remnant [8]. To ensure sufficient liver remnant volume after liver resection, several strategies, including portal vein embolization (PVE), portal vein ligation (PVL), associating liver partition with portal vein ligation for staged hepatectomy (ALPPS) procedure, and selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT), have been recently employed in inducing hypertrophy of FLR [9,10]. Within them, ALPPS procedure has been demonstrated to achieve the greatest increase rate of FLR recently [11]. However, PVE has been sometimes recognized as a more ideal method for inducing a comparable increase rate of FLR with ALPPS procedure as well as its lower morbidity and mortality than ALPPS, which is widely accepted by the majority of centers before major liver resection [12,13].

Portal vein embolization, of which the basic principle involved in occluding a branch of portal venous flow to the liver segments that are planned to resect, subsequently results in ipsilateral hepatic atrophy and compensatory contralateral hypertrophy, was first described by Kinoshita in a hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patient in 1986 [12]. Since then, various studies have reported the efficacy of PVE in inducing compensatory hypertrophy of FLR in preparation for liver resection [14-17]. Currently, PVE is usually performed as a routine procedure before any extended liver resection to increase remnant liver volume [18]. Although, many clinical studies have been published on hypertrophy of the FRL in small and large patient cohorts. Controversy remains on the potential adverse effect of PVE on tumor growth. Some studies suggested that PVE also stimulates the growth of liver tumor that is still present within the regenerating liver, regardless of embolized lobe or the non-embolized lobe. Disease progression secondary to PVE may affect surgical strategies and patient outcomes [19,20]. Meanwhile, concerns are also raised as to whether PVE only induces volume change rather than functional gain [21].

Two meta-analyses have been published on the effect of PVE in major liver resection. The first by Abulkhir et al. in 2008 reviewed different techniques (percutaneous transhepatic and transileocolic) of PVE and concluded that PVE is an effective procedure in inducing liver regeneration to prevent postoperative liver failure [21]. Another by Lienden et al. demonstrated that PVE has a high technical and clinical success rate and liver cirrhosis has a negative effect on the hypertrophy induced by PVE [8]. However, there is still no authoritative literature systematically summarized the advantages and adverse effects of PVE. In our present meta-analysis, we mainly highlighted the effect of PVE on the degree of hypertrophy of FLR and summarized PVE-related complications, aiming to provide a guideline for surgeons to make an accurate decision.

Materials and Methods

Search strategy and study selection

A systematic search of the available published studies on portal vein embolization was conducted in Pubmed, Embase, Medline, PMC, Web of Science, and Cochrane database. Two researchers (Y.H. and W.G.) independently searched publications from 1990 to March 2020 using the following “Mesh Terms”: “portal vein embolization”, “liver resection”, and “liver tumor”. The “related article” function was also used to broaden the search. All abstracts, studies, and citations retrieved were reviewed, including references of these articles. The final selection of the articles was made in consensus by all authors. The detail of literature search strategies is illustrated in Figure 1.

Eligibility criteria

All full text articles were enrolled if they were composed of information on patient characteristics, indications for PVE, techniques, and materials of PVE, the hypertrophy rate of FLR, the successful rate of resection and complications after PVE. Newcastle-Ottawa Quality Assessment Scale (NOS) bias risk tool was used to assess the methodological quality of enrolled studies, and those with a score ≥7 were considered eligible and enrolled in our study. We then extracted the aforementioned clinical parameters from enrolled studies.

Exclusion criteria

We excluded studies if they are reviews, case reports, animal studies, non-English publications, and repetitive publications in different databases. Studies that didn't record patient characteristics, FLR before and after PVE or the hypertrophy rate of FLR, and complications after PVE were also excluded. We also excluded the studies in which appropriate data could not extract from the results.

Statistical analysis

The meta-analysis was performed according to recommendations from the Cochrane Collaboration and the Quality of Reporting of Meta-analyses (QUORUM) guidelines. Single-rate meta-analysis was performed using Stata 12.0 software (Stata Corporation, College Station, TX, USA). The combined effect size (ES) of FLR hypertrophy rate was examined. Combined ES more than 0 favored in the efficacy of PVE and the point estimate of ES was considered to be statistically significant at P < 0.05 level if the 95% confidence interval didn't include the value 0. Heterogeneity among the studies was tested using the p value of Q test and I² test. When p > 0.1 and I² ≤50%, a fixed-effect model was used, otherwise a random effect model was selected. A further sensitivity analysis was performed to detect the heterogeneity. Funnel plot, as well as metatrim method, was used to detect the publication bias. P < 0.05 was considered as statistically significant.

Results

Research selection and quality assessment

Based on the aforementioned search strategies, 4065 publications including related articles were searched from the online database. After removing repetitive publications, a total of 2409 records remained. Then, 2285 publications were excluded by screening the titles and abstracts, and 98 of the remaining 124 articles were deleted for various reasons. At last, 26 publications with an NOS score ≥7, including 2335 patients were enrolled in the present meta-analysis (Figure 1). The characteristics of the enrolled studies and clinical parameters of patients in these studies were summarized in Tables 1-3.

FLR hypertrophy rate

All 26 studies reported data regarding FLR hypertrophy rate, pooled ES for FLR hypertrophy rate using a fixed-effect model was 0.105 (95%CI: 0.094-0.117, p=0.000), indicating PVE is favored in inducing FLR hypertrophy. Additionally, the sensitivity analysis demonstrated that there is no study that greatly interfered with the results of the present meta-analysis, suggesting no proof of heterogeneity among the enrolled studies (p value of Q test=0.995, I²=0%) (Figures 2 & 3).

Publication bias

A funnel plot, as well as metatrim method was used to detected publication bias. Before metatrim, pooled ES for FLR hypertrophy rate was 0.105 (95%CI: 0.094-0.117, p=0.000). After metatrim, 5 studies were added into the meta-analysis, and pooled ES for FLR hypertrophy rate was 0.103 (95%CI: 0.092-0.114, p=0.000). Results before and after metatrim are stable and are both statistically significant, which means publication bias is negligible in the present study (Figure 4).

 Figure 1 

The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) flow diagram for search and selection processes of the meta-analysis.

 Figure 2 

Meta-analysis of effect size (ES) of hypertrophy rate in future liver remnant after PVE.

 Figure 3 

Sensitivity analysis of the meta-analysis.

PVE-related complications

Although almost every enrolled study reported the complications, 247 (10.6%) patients exhibited PVE-related complications, of which abdominal pain, fever, and coil displacement are most frequently seen. The overall occurrence rate of complications is infrequent after PVE, and there was no mortality directly associated with PVE. All patients with complications received expectant treatment without affecting subsequent liver resection (Table 4).

 Figure 4 

Funnel plot, as well as metatrim method, assess the publication bias of the meta-analysis.

Liver resection after PVE

In the present study, 1782 patients (76%) underwent a subsequent liver resection after PVE, which is an encouraging result comparing with the traditional resection rate in liver tumor patients. The average interval between PVE and surgery was 38.9 days, resembling the results ever reported. 553 patients (24%) failed to undergo operations because of insufficient hypertrophy, local tumor progression, extrahepatic tumor spread and other complications (Table 3).

Discussion

Preoperative PVE has been performed clinically to induce hypertrophy of the contralateral lobe and avoid postoperative liver failure resulted from insufficient remnant liver after resection. The basic principle of PVE is occluding a branch of portal venous flow to the liver segments that are planned to resect, resulting in ipsilateral hepatic atrophy and compensatory contralateral hypertrophy [18]. However, the exact molecular mechanism leading to atrophy of the embolized lobe and hypertrophy of the FLR is still unknown. Recent studies showed that hepatic growth factor (HGF) and transforming growth factor (TGF)-α and -β may play vital roles in contributing to the hypertrophy of the non-embolized lobe [22].

As for the indications, PVE is initially used to increase the resection rate in HCC patients [12]. Over the past two decades, the indications of PVE also include nearly all primary and secondary liver tumors with insufficient FLR before major liver resection [23-29]. Ribero et al. showed a small FLR is strongly associated with postoperative hepatic dysfunction [9]. Hence, the majority of centers use an FLR volume ratio of 25%-30% of the original liver volume as a threshold to select appropriate patients with normal liver function. Nevertheless, most liver tumor patients are usually with the infection of hepatic virus, the history of chemotherapy, liver cirrhosis or fibrosis, and other factors inducing liver dysfunction. A threshold of 35%-45% is preferred by most centers as a minimum FLR volume rate [3,23]. Some Japanese researchers also advocate to select appropriate patients for PVE by the method of indocyanine green (ICG) plasma disappearance or retention rate test at 15 min, which is beneficial to estimate preoperative remnant liver function [30]. Recent researches reported quantitative liver function tests, such as ⁹⁹Tc-labelled mebrofenin hepatobiliary scintigraphy HBS and ⁹⁹Tc-galactosyl-human serum albumin (GSA) scintigraphy, are conducive to select appropriate patients for PVE [31].

Several mature techniques for PVE have been introduced, including transileocolic portal vein embolization (TIPE), the percutaneous transhepatic ipsilateral or contralateral PVE technique (PTPE), and intraoperative portal branch embolization [32-34]. It is demonstrated that a greater increase in FRL in PTPE than in surgical TIPE, as well as no difference in the occurrence of major complications [6]. With the advancement of radiological intervention, PTPE becomes the standard technique for PVE with a satisfactory success rate. PTPE can be performed by an ipsilateral or contralateral approach. The ipsilateral approach is preferred by the majority of centers for its advantage of avoiding puncturing the FLR tissue and easier to access to segment Ⅳ, though technically more difficult [35].

Many available commercially embolization materials have been applied for PVE. Polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) particles and N-butyl-cyanoacrylate with coils are mostly used [8,36]. In our meta-analysis, we summarized 26 studies and concluded that apart from both of them, absolute ethanol, microspheres, and gelatin powder are also widely accepted in the majority of centers [37-40]. (Table 3) N-butyl-cyanoacrylate induces severe inflammatory reaction, usually resulting in technical difficulty in surgical resection [14,41]. Gelatin powder is absorbable, producing only transient embolization with the possibility of vascular recanalization [42]. Absolute ethanol has been showed to induce peripheral parenchyma fibrosis and necrosis, and severe abdominal pain sometimes, though producing effective hypertrophy of FLR [43]. PVA particles are easily available and provide persistent occlusion of portal branched with acceptable side effects. Hence, PVA is recommended to apply alone or with other materials in the majority of centers [44,45]. In general, large clinical studies comparing different embolization materials are still necessary to seek the optimal materials.

All patients underwent volumetric assessment by means of CT imaging before PVE and surgery [46]. There is no consensus on the most appropriate waiting time between PVE and surgery. It has been showed that the average interval from PVE to liver resection was 29 days [21]. In our study, the majority of the enrolled studies reported interval between PVE and liver resection, the average interval was 38.9 days (Table 3), which is similar to the results ever reported. To our knowledge, a longer time interval after PVE allows greater growth of FRL. Nevertheless, there is the issue put forward by some surgeons that tumor growth is simultaneously induced by PVE. Accumulating studies demonstrated that tumor progression after PVE is possible in both embolized and non-embolized lobe [19,47]. Additionally, controversy remains as to whether PVE only induces volume change rather than functional gain [21]. In consideration of disease progression after PVE may affect surgical strategies and patient outcomes, more multiple central clinical trials are imperative to come to a consensus on the optimal interval between PVE and liver resection.

Apart from limiting time between PVE and liver resection, post-PVE chemotherapy, or sequential transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) is also recommended to restrict tumor progression by some centers [8]. Beal et al. demonstrated a reduction in tumor size in patients who received chemotherapy after PVE. However, the attendant problem is that less hypertrophy of FRL is observed in patients with a history of chemotherapy [48]. Other studies also showed no significant difference in hypertrophy rate or complications in patients with chemotherapy post PVE [49]. Due to the limited number of current studies and their heterogeneity, more researches are needed to evaluate the effect of chemotherapy on the PVE receptor.

Either the overall technical success (99.3%) or clinical success rate (96.1%) of PVE is extremely high as reported. Patients who experienced failure for the first time also possess the second chance to achieve a successful embolization, which made PVE a safe and effective technique for patients [8]. Although various PVE-related complications have been reported, complications infrequently occurred after PVE and there was no mortality directly associated with PVE. In our present study, 247 (10.6%) patients exhibited PVE-related complications, of which abdominal pain, fever, and coil displacement are most frequently seen (Table 4). All patients with complications received expectant treatment without affecting subsequent liver resection. In our present meta-analysis, 553 patients (24%) failed to undergo a liver resection because of insufficient hypertrophy, local tumor progression, extrahepatic tumor spread, and other PVE-related complications (Table 3). However, comparing with traditional resection rate in liver tumor patients, more patients benefit from PVE and have access to resection with a reduced occurrence of postoperative complications.

Conclusion

Although as one of the emerging methods inducing hypertrophy of FLR, PVE has been expertly used during recent years with an acceptable adverse effect to make more patients able to achieve major liver resection with a high rate of success, which is recommendable for any patients with a small future liver remnant volume when considering liver resection. Our previous teamwork reported that PVE prior to hepatectomy may promote FLR compensatory hypertrophy and an increase in the resectability of primary liver cancer, which could be considered as an independent patient cohort to validate our findings and conclusions in our present meta-analysis [50,51]. The ipsilateral approach is preferred and PVA particles are usually the first choice for PVE. More multiple central clinical trials are needed to determine whether it is necessary to conduct post-PVE chemotherapy and when is the appropriate time to perform the resection. PVE-related complications are infrequently seen and timely expectant treatment is beneficial for patients without affecting subsequent liver resection.

Superiority

To date, this is the first meta-analysis that directly highlighted the degree of hypertrophy of FLR by PVE procedure. Due to the greatest patient cohort and rational analysis method in the present meta-analysis, the statistical power of this meta-analysis and the integrity of the summary were better than any individual research published so far. Additionally, this meta-analysis contributes new convincing information to previous literature, which may provide a promising guideline for other researchers.

Limitations

Meta-analysis has an intrinsic bias introduced by the selection and location of studies. Meanwhile, researchers preferred to report positive findings and studies with significant differences are easy to be published, which may induce publish bias. In our present meta-analysis, most of the enrolled studies are retrospective, of which a long study period may introduce potential confounders. In addition, although a large patient cohort is included, the quality of enrolled studies is uneven, which may result in bias in our result. Hence, more high quality randomized, clinical trials are conducive to select the most appropriate patient cohorts and evaluate the effect of PVE.

Abbreviations

PVE: portal vein embolization; FLR: future liver remnant; PVL: portal vein ligation; SIRT: selective internal radiation therapy; ALPPS: associating liver partition with portal vein ligation for staged hepatectomy; HCC: hepatocellular carcinoma; NOS: Newcastle-Ottawa Quality Assessment Scale; HGF: hepatic growth factor; TGF: transforming growth factor; GSA: 99Tc-galactosyl-human serum albumin; TIPE: transileocolic portal vein embolization; PTPE: percutaneous transhepatic portal vein embolization; PVA: polyvinyl alcohol; TACE: transarterial chemoembolization; ICG: indocyanine green.

Acknowledgements

Author Contributions

Yu Huang and Wenhao Ge proposed the concept and design of this study; Yang Kong and Yuan Ding collected the literature; Yu Huang, Wenhao Ge, Bingqiang Gao and Xiaohui Qian analyzed the data; All authors participated in the manuscript writing and final approval of the manuscript.

Funding

This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.81572307 and 81773096).

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interest exists.

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Corresponding author: Weilin Wang, Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, No. 88 Jiefang Road, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, 310009; E-mail: wamedu.cn; Tel: +86 0571 87783820; Fax: +86 0571 87068001.

Received 2020-7-6
Accepted 2020-12-26
Published 2021-1-21

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