Hepatectomy for hepatocellular carcinoma with portal vein tumor thrombus

Table 2 Patient mortality

	Ref.	Patient number or percent	Cause of death
Within 30 d
	Ikai et al[27]	3	Pulmonary bleeding
			Extrahepatic growth
	Yamamoto et al[44]	1	Renal failure
	Ohkubo et al[11]	1	Liver failure
	Capussotti et al[42]	2	Postoperative bleeding
			Liver failure
	Liang et al[20]	2
	Tang et al[43]	2	Decompensation
38 d
	Capussotti et al[42]	1	Sepsis
58 d
	Minagawa et al[13]	1	Liver failure
Operative mortality
	Fan et al[26]	4.80%
	Peng et al[22]	2	Operative complication
	Matono et al[45]	1
	Peng et al[46]	1	Liver failure
	Chock et al[47]	3.40%
	Shi et al[48]	1	Postoperative bleeding
	Zheng et al[51]	1	Serious postoperative infection
	Ye et al[24]	9.30%	Liver failure, serious infection, heart failure
Mortality
	Chen et al[49]	0%
		2.60%
	Nagano et al[17]	0%
	Kamiyama et al[12]	0%
	Ban et al[57]	0%
	Chen et al[50]	4.50%
	Fukumoto et al[25]	0%
	Li et al[30]	0%