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Risk Factors and Outcomes of Open Conversion During Minimally Invasive Major Hepatectomies: An International Multicenter Study on 3880 Procedures Comparing the Laparoscopic and Robotic Approaches

18-may-2023 | Revista: Annals of Surgical Oncology

Roberto Montalti #  1 , Mariano Cesare Giglio #  1 , Andrew G R Wu  2 , Federica Cipriani  3 , Mizelle D'Silva  4 , Amal Suhool  5 , Phan Phuoc Nghia  6 , Yutaro Kato  7 , Chetana Lim  8 , Paulo Herman  9 , Fabricio Ferreira Coelho  9 , Moritz Schmelzle  10 , Johann Pratschke  10 , Davit L Aghayan  11 , Qiu Liu  12 , Marco V Marino  13 , Andrea Belli  14 , Adrian K H Chiow  15 , Iswanto Sucandy  16 , Arpad Ivanecz  17 , Fabrizio Di Benedetto  18 , Sung Hoon Choi  19 , Jae Hoon Lee  20 , James O Park  21 , Mikel Prieto  22 , Yoelimar Guzman  23 , Constantino Fondevila  23   24 , Mikhail Efanov  25 , Fernando Rotellar  26 , Gi-Hong Choi  27 , Ricardo Robles-Campos  28 , Xiaoying Wang  29 , Robert P Sutcliffe  30 , Chung Ngai Tang  31 , Charing C Chong  32 , Mathieu D'Hondt  33 , Bernardo Dalla Valle  34 , Andrea Ruzzenente  34 , T Peter Kingham  35 , Olivier Scatton  8 , Rong Liu  12 , Alejandro Mejia  36 , Kohei Mishima  37 , Go Wakabayashi  37 , Santiago Lopez-Ben  38 , Franco Pascual  39 , Daniel Cherqui  39 , Fabio Forchino  40 , Alessandro Ferrero  40 , Giuseppe Maria Ettorre  41 , Giovanni Battista Levi Sandri  41 , Atsushi Sugioka  7 , Bjørn Edwin  11 , Tan-To Cheung  42 , Tran Cong Duy Long  6 , Mohammad Abu Hilal  43   5 , Luca Aldrighetti  3 , David Fuks  44 , Ho-Seong Han  4 , Roberto I Troisi #  45 , Brian K P Goh #  46   47 ; International Robotic and Laparoscopic Liver Resection Study Group Investigators


Introduction: Despite the advances in minimally invasive (MI) liver surgery, most major hepatectomies (MHs) continue to be performed by open surgery. This study aimed to evaluate the risk factors and outcomes of open conversion during MI MH, including the impact of the type of approach (laparoscopic vs. robotic) on the occurrence and outcomes of conversions.

Methods: Data on 3880 MI conventional and technical (right anterior and posterior sectionectomies) MHs were retrospectively collected. Risk factors and perioperative outcomes of open conversion were analyzed. Multivariate analysis, propensity score matching, and inverse probability treatment weighting analysis were performed to control for confounding factors.

Results: Overall, 3211 laparoscopic MHs (LMHs) and 669 robotic MHs (RMHs) were included, of which 399 (10.28%) had an open conversion. Multivariate analyses demonstrated that male sex, laparoscopic approach, cirrhosis, previous abdominal surgery, concomitant other surgery, American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) score 3/4, larger tumor size, conventional MH, and Institut Mutualiste Montsouris classification III procedures were associated with an increased risk of conversion. After matching, patients requiring open conversion had poorer outcomes compared with non-converted cases, as evidenced by the increased operation time, blood transfusion rate, blood loss, hospital stay, postoperative morbidity/major morbidity and 30/90-day mortality. Although RMH showed a decreased risk of conversion compared with LMH, converted RMH showed increased blood loss, blood transfusion rate, postoperative major morbidity and 30/90-day mortality compared with converted LMH.

Conclusions: Multiple risk factors are associated with conversion. Converted cases, especially those due to intraoperative bleeding, have unfavorable outcomes. Robotic assistance seemed to increase the feasibility of the MI approach, but converted robotic procedures showed inferior outcomes compared with converted laparoscopic procedures.

CITA DEL ARTÍCULO  Ann Surg Oncol. 2023 May 18.  doi: 10.1245/s10434-023-13525-0