CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells decreased future liver remnant after associating liver partition and portal vein ligation for staged hepatectomy

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BACKGROUND: Associating liver partition and portal vein ligation for staged hepatectomy (ALPPS) is an innovative surgical approach for the treatment of massive hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the key to successful planned stage 2 ALPPS is future liver remnant (FLR) volume growth, but the exact mechanism has not been elucidated. The correlation between regulatory T cells (Tregs) and postoperative FLR regeneration has not been reported.

AIM: To investigate the effect of CD4+CD25+ Tregs on FLR regeneration after ALPPS.

METHODS: Clinical data and specimens were collected from 37 patients who developed massive HCC treated with ALPPS. Flow cytometry was performed to detect changes in the proportion of CD4+CD25+ Tregs to CD4+ T cells in peripheral blood before and after ALPPS. To analyze the relationship between peripheral blood CD4+CD25+ Treg proportion and clinicopathological information and liver volume.

RESULTS: The postoperative CD4+CD25+ Treg proportion in stage 1 ALPPS was negatively correlated with the amount of proliferation volume, proliferation rate, and kinetic growth rate (KGR) of the FLR after stage 1 ALPPS. Patients with low Treg proportion had significantly higher KGR than those with high Treg proportion (P = 0.006); patients with high Treg proportion had more severe postoperative pathological liver fibrosis than those with low Treg proportion (P = 0.043). The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve between the percentage of Tregs and proliferation volume, proliferation rate, and KGR were all greater than 0.70.

CONCLUSION: CD4+CD25+ Tregs in the peripheral blood of patients with massive HCC at stage 1 ALPPS were negatively correlated with indicators of FLR regeneration after stage 1 ALPPS and may influence the degree of fibrosis in patients' livers. Treg percentage was highly accurate in predicting the FLR regeneration after stage 1 ALPPS.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:15

Enthalten in:

World journal of gastrointestinal surgery - 15(2023), 5 vom: 27. Mai, Seite 917-930

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wang, Wei [VerfasserIn]
Ye, Chun-Hui [VerfasserIn]
Deng, Zhen-Feng [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Ji-Long [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Ling [VerfasserIn]
Bao, Li [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Bang-Hao [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Hai [VerfasserIn]
Guo, Ya [VerfasserIn]
Wen, Zhang [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Associating liver partition and portal vein ligation for staged hepatectomy
Future liver remnant
Journal Article
Regulatory T cells

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Date Revised 01.07.2023

published: Print

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.4240/wjgs.v15.i5.917

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM358443296