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Liver abscesses after transcatheter arterial embolization

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to evaluate the clinical features, radiological findings, risk factors, and management of liver abscesses following transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) therapy in patients with primary and metastatic liver cancer. METHODS: The medical records of 163 patients w...

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Autores principales: Arslan, Muhammet, Degirmencioglu, Serkan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6421372/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30614336
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0300060518816875
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description OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to evaluate the clinical features, radiological findings, risk factors, and management of liver abscesses following transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) therapy in patients with primary and metastatic liver cancer. METHODS: The medical records of 163 patients who were treated with TACE in our hospital for a total of 313 times between January 2012 and January 2018 were reviewed. The incidence rate of patients who developed liver abscesses after undergoing treatment, the computed tomography findings of the abscesses, predisposing risk factors, and the method of treatment were evaluated. RESULTS: Formation of liver abscesses was observed after treatment in four of the 163 (2.4%) patients and in four (1.3%) of the 313 chemoembolization procedures. Additionally, bilioenteric anastomosis was found in two patients and diabetes mellitus in two patients. CONCLUSION: Formation of liver abscesses after TACE is a rare, but serious, complication. Physicians should be aware of the predisposing risk factors of TACE because of the possibility of death.
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spelling pubmed-64213722019-03-22 Liver abscesses after transcatheter arterial embolization Arslan, Muhammet Degirmencioglu, Serkan J Int Med Res Clinical Research Reports OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to evaluate the clinical features, radiological findings, risk factors, and management of liver abscesses following transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) therapy in patients with primary and metastatic liver cancer. METHODS: The medical records of 163 patients who were treated with TACE in our hospital for a total of 313 times between January 2012 and January 2018 were reviewed. The incidence rate of patients who developed liver abscesses after undergoing treatment, the computed tomography findings of the abscesses, predisposing risk factors, and the method of treatment were evaluated. RESULTS: Formation of liver abscesses was observed after treatment in four of the 163 (2.4%) patients and in four (1.3%) of the 313 chemoembolization procedures. Additionally, bilioenteric anastomosis was found in two patients and diabetes mellitus in two patients. CONCLUSION: Formation of liver abscesses after TACE is a rare, but serious, complication. Physicians should be aware of the predisposing risk factors of TACE because of the possibility of death. SAGE Publications 2019-01-07 2019-03 /pmc/articles/PMC6421372/ /pubmed/30614336 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0300060518816875 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Creative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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title_full Liver abscesses after transcatheter arterial embolization
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title_full_unstemmed Liver abscesses after transcatheter arterial embolization
title_short Liver abscesses after transcatheter arterial embolization
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topic Clinical Research Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6421372/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30614336
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