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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Coll Surg. 2012 Dec 7;216(2):201–209. doi: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2012.10.018

Table 2. Measures of Future Liver Remnant Volume before and after Portal Vein Embolization.

Baseline measurement, median (range) Initial post-PVE measurement (<8 week after PVE), median (range) Final post-PVE measurement before surgery, median (range)
No. of days after PVE 0 30 (14 - 54) 31 (14 - 254)
FLR volume, mL 331 (148 - 927) 486 (257 - 1187) 497 (256 - 1186)
sFLR volume, % 20.1 (9.5 - 57.8) 29.4 (20.1 - 75.1) 31.2 (20.1 - 75.1)
DH, % - 10.1 (0.1 - 39.9) 10.8 (0.1 - 39.9)
KGR, % per week - 2.4 (0.2 - 9.4) -

Eleven patients (10.3%) required additional waiting time at this point due to insufficient volume increase.

FLR, future liver remnant; sFLR, standardized FLR; DH, degree of hypertrophy; KGR, kinetic growth rate, defined as DH per week.