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- Title
Perioperative exercise capacity in chronic liver injury patients with hepatocellular carcinoma undergoing hepatectomy.
- Authors
Kaibori, Masaki; Matsui, Kosuke; Yoshii, Kengo; Ishizaki, Morihiko; Iwasaka, Junji; Miyauchi, Takumi; Kimura, Yutaka
- Abstract
Dynamic assessment of preoperative exercise capacity may be a useful predictor of postoperative prognosis. We aimed to clarify whether perioperative exercise capacity was related to long-term survival in hepatocellular carcinoma patients with chronic liver injury undergoing hepatectomy. One hundred-six patients with hepatocellular carcinoma underwent pre- and postoperative cardiopulmonary exercise testing to determine their anaerobic threshold, defined as the point between carbon dioxide production and oxygen consumption per unit of time. Testing involved 35 items including blood biochemistry analysis, in-vivo component analysis, dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry, and cardiopulmonary exercise testing preoperatively and 6 months postoperatively. We classified patients with anaerobic threshold ≥ 90% 6 months postoperatively compared with the preoperative level as the maintenance group (n = 78) and patients with anaerobic threshold < 90% as the decrease group (n = 28). Five-year recurrence-free survival rates were 39.9% vs. 9.9% (maintenance vs. decrease group) (hazard ratio: 1.87 [95% confidence interval: 1.12–3.13]; P = 0.018). Five-year overall survival rates were maintenance: 81.9%, and decrease: 61.7% (hazard ratio: 2.95 [95% confidence interval: 1.37–6.33]; P = 0.006). Multivariable Cox proportional hazards models showed that perioperative maintenance of anaerobic threshold was an independent prognostic indicator for both recurrence-free- and overall survival. Although the mean anaerobic threshold from preoperative to postoperative month 6 decreased in the exercise-not-implemented group, the exercise-implemented group experienced increased anaerobic threshold, on average, at postoperative month 6. The significant prognostic factor affecting postoperative survival for chronic liver injury patients with HCC undergoing hepatectomy was maintenance of anaerobic threshold up to 6 months postoperatively.
- Subjects
HEPATOCELLULAR carcinoma; LIVER injuries; ANAEROBIC exercises; DUAL-energy X-ray absorptiometry; PROPORTIONAL hazards models; ANAEROBIC threshold; EXERCISE tests; OXYGEN consumption
- Publication
PLoS ONE, 2019, Vol 14, Issue 8, p1
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0221079