Clinical significance of aberrant left hepatic artery during gastrectomy: A systematic review

Table 3 The characteristic of four studies compared ALHA ligation and ALHA preservation group

	ALHAWaki et al[25], ALHA			Ang et al[29], RLHA			AcLHA			Shinohara et al[17], ALHA			Kim et al[30], ALHA
	Divided (n = 18)	Preserved (n = 37)	P value	Divided (n = 17)	Preserved (n = 114)	P value	Divided (n = 52)	Preserved (n = 21)	P value	Divided (n = 23)	Preserved (n = 27)	P value	Divided (n = 116)	Preserved (n = 34)	P value
Operation time (min)	285 (171-490)	301 (173-476)	0.36	222 ± 55	243 ± 73	0.158	216 ± 49	221 ± 59	0.727	293 ± 19	223 ± 18	0.0141	151.5 (84-315)	177.5 (118-329)	0.084
EBL (mL)	10 (0-155)	18 (0-308)	0.427	102 ± 93	134 ± 126	0.316	108 ± 93	129 ± 126	0.429	450 ± 44	269 ± 43	0.0051	100 (20-1000)	100 (30-200)	0.791
RLS (n)	59 (34-64)	36.5 (21-53)	0.152							54 ± 5.7	38 ± 3.5	0.0181	37 (16-87)	33 (16-66)	0.207
PHS (d)	10 (7-38)	9 (7-21)	0.113	11.8 ± 8.0	9.7 ± 7.5	0.295	10.9 ± 16.7	11.9 ± 9.2	0.804	-	-	-	-	-	-
Complications, n (%)	6 (33.3%)	6 (16.2%)	0.177	3 (17.6%)	16 (14%)	0.713	8 (15.4%)	6 (28.6%)	0.207	-	-	-	-	-	-
PLECT	POD1, POD3		< 0.0011	AST POD2, ALT (POD2, POD5)		< 0.0011, (< 0.0011, 0.0461)	-		-	POD1, POD3		< 0.011	AST POD1; ALT (POD1, POD5)		0.0091; (0.0031, 0.0071)

¹P < 0.05. Values are presented as mean ± SE or median (range).

EBL: Estimated blood loss; RLS: Retrieved lymph nodes; PHS: Postoperative hospital stay; PLECT: Postoperative liver enzyme changed time; ALT: alanine aminotransferase; AST: aspartate aminotransferase; POD: postoperative day.