Clearance of the liver remnant predicts short-term outcome in patients undergoing resection of hepatocellular carcinoma

Table 3 Predictive factors for post-hepatectomy liver failure in grade B, or C

	Univariate analysis			Multivariate analysis
	P	OR	95%CI	P	OR	95%CI
Age (yr)	0.53	1.02	0.96-1.08
Gender (male : female)	0.59	0.67	0.10-2.66
Child–Pugh class	0.47	1.63	0.06-1.63
PT-INR	0.86	0.79	0.05-11.0
AST	0.34	0.99	0.98-1.00
ALT	0.14	0.99	0.98-1.00
Choline Esterase	0.24	1.00	0.99-1.01
ALBI score	0.15	0.37	0.09-1.41	0.375	3.31	0.37-29.3
Operation time	0.02	1.01	0.99-1.00	0.110	1.010	0.99-1.01
Intraoperative blood loss	0.001	1.0007	1.0003-1.0012	0.033	1.001	1.0002-1.002
Hepatic clearance of the remnant liver	< 0.001	0.972	0.958-0.987	0.002	0.973	0.952-0.995
Functional volume of the remnant liver	0.002	0.997	0.994-0.999	0.351	0.998	0.995-1.00
LHL15	0.02	52	2.03-1382	0.362	9.597	0.08-1211

AST: Aspartate aminotransferase; ALT: Alanine aminotransferase; PT-INR: Prothrombin time international normalized ratio; ALBI: Albumin-bilirubin; LHL15: liver to heart-plus-liver radioactivity at 15 min; OR: Odds ratio; CI: Confidence interval.