Preoperative albumin-bilirubin score and liver resection percentage determine postoperative liver regeneration after partial hepatectomy
Kazuhiro Takahashi, Masahiko Gosho, Yoshihiro Miyazaki, Hiromitsu Nakahashi, Osamu Shimomura, Kinji Furuya, Manami Doi, Yohei Owada, Koichi Ogawa, Yusuke Ohara, Yoshimasa Akashi, Tsuyoshi Enomoto, Shinji Hashimoto, Tatsuya Oda
Kazuhiro Takahashi, Yoshihiro Miyazaki, Hiromitsu Nakahashi, Osamu Shimomura, Kinji Furuya, Manami Doi, Yohei Owada, Koichi Ogawa, Yusuke Ohara, Yoshimasa Akashi, Tsuyoshi Enomoto, Shinji Hashimoto, Tatsuya Oda, Department of Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary-Pancreatic Surgery, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 3058-575, Ibaraki, Japan
Masahiko Gosho, Department of Biostatistics, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 3058-575, Ibaraki, Japan
Author contributions: Takahashi K designed and conducted the study and wrote the paper; Gosho M contributed to the analysis; Miyazaki Y, Nakahashi H, Shimomura O, Furuya K, Doi M, Owada Y, Ogawa K, Ohara Y, and Akashi Y provided clinical advice; and Enomoto T, Hashimoto S, and Oda T supervised the study.
Institutional review board statement: This study was reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee of Tsukuba University Hospital.
Informed consent statement: Patients were not required to give informed consent to the study because the analysis used anonymous clinical data that were obtained after each patient agreed to treatment by written consent. We applied the Opt-out method to obtain consent for this study by using a poster. The poster was approved by the Institutional Review Board.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All the authors report no relevant conflicts of interest for this article.
Data sharing statement: Technical appendix, statistical code, and dataset available from the corresponding author at kazu1123@md.tsukuba.ac.jp.
STROBE statement: The authors have read the STROBE Statement—checklist of items—and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the STROBE Statement—checklist of items.
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https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Kazuhiro Takahashi, FACS, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Surgeon, Department of Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary-Pancreatic Surgery, University of Tsukuba, Tennodai 1-1-1, Tsukuba 3058-575, Ibaraki, Japan. kazu1123@md.tsukuba.ac.jp
Received: December 7, 2023
Peer-review started: December 7, 2023
First decision: January 24, 2024
Revised: February 5, 2024
Accepted: March 25, 2024
Article in press: March 25, 2024
Published online: April 14, 2024
