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. 2022 Jul 1;276(1):146-152.
doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000004465. Epub 2020 Sep 1.

Mild Prognostic Impact of Postoperative Complications on Long-term Survival of Perihilar Cholangiocarcinoma

Shoji Kawakatsu  1 , Tomoki Ebata  1 , Nobuyuki Watanabe  1 , Shunsuke Onoe  1 , Junpei Yamaguchi  1 , Takashi Mizuno  1 , Tsuyoshi Igami  1 , Yukihiro Yokoyama  1 , Keitaro Matsuo  2 , Masato Nagino  1
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Mild Prognostic Impact of Postoperative Complications on Long-term Survival of Perihilar Cholangiocarcinoma

Shoji Kawakatsu et al. Ann Surg. .

Abstract

Objective: To evaluate the impact of complications on long-term survival in patients with perihilar cholangiocarcinoma.

Background: Surgical resection for perihilar cholangiocarcinoma is vulnerable to postoperative complications. The prognostic impact of complications in patients with this disease is unknown.

Methods: The medical records of patients who underwent curative-intent hepatectomy for perihilar cholangiocarcinoma between 2010 and 2017 were reviewed retrospectively. The comprehensive complication index (CCI) was calculated based on all postoperative complications, which were graded by the Clavien-Dindo classification (CDC). Patients were divided into high and low CCI groups by the median score, and survival was compared between the 2 groups.

Results: Excluding 8 patients who died in hospital, 369 patients were analyzed. The CDC grade was I in 20 (5.4%), II in 108 (29.3%), III in 224 (60.7%), and IV in 17 (4.6%) patients. The CCI increased with increasing CDC grade; the median was 42.9 (range, 15.0-98.9). Overall survival differed significantly between the high (n = 187) and low (n = 182) CCI groups (41.2% vs 47.9% at 5 years; P = 0.041). However, multivariable analyses demonstrated that traditional clinicopathological factors were independent predictors of survival and that the dichotomized CCI was not. In addition, the CCI score as a continuous variable was not an independent prognostic factor for overall survival in the multivariable analyses (hazard ratio per 1 CCI score: 1.00, 95% confidence interval: 0.99-1.01, P = 0.775).

Conclusions: Cumulative postoperative complications after resection of perihilar cholangiocarcinoma only moderately deteriorate long-term survival, and should not be an argument to deny surgery in this high-risk population.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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