Table 2.
Perioperative characteristics of 480 patients with hepatocellular carcinoma classified by mALF score.
| Variable | 0 Points (n = 289) |
1 Point (n = 157) |
2 Points (n = 34) |
p | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Surgical Procedure | 0.077 | ||||||
| Non-anatomic or segmentectomy | 141 | (49%) | 79 | (50%) | 10 | (29%) | |
| Sectionectomy or more than hemihepatectomy | 148 | (51%) | 78 | (50%) | 24 | (71%) | |
| Open, Laparoscopic | 0.344 | ||||||
| Open | 206 | (71%) | 110 | (70%) | 28 | (82%) | |
| Laparoscopic | 83 | (29%) | 47 | (30%) | 6 | (18%) | |
| Operative time, min | 0.016 | ||||||
| <330 | 151 | (52%) | 81 | (52%) | 9 | (26%) | |
| ≥330 | 138 | (48%) | 76 | (48%) | 25 | (74%) | |
| Operative blood loss, ml | 0.090 | ||||||
| <617 | 151 | (52%) | 78 | (50%) | 11 | (32%) | |
| ≥617 | 138 | (48%) | 79 | (50%) | 23 | (68%) | |
| Postoperative complications (Clavien–Dindo classification ≥3) |
<0.001 | ||||||
| No | 249 | (86%) | 111 | (71%) | 21 | (62%) | |
| Yes | 40 | (14%) | 46 | (29%) | 13 | (38%) | |
| Postoperative hospital stay, days | <0.001 | ||||||
| <14 | 153 | (53%) | 67 | (43%) | 5 | (15%) | |
| ≥14 | 136 | (47%) | 90 | (57%) | 29 | (85%) | |
| Readmission within 30 days | 0.008 | ||||||
| No | 272 | (95%) | 144 | (92%) | 24 | (80%) | |
| Yes | 13 | (5%) | 13 | (8%) | 6 | (20%) | |
mALF: modified albumin-bilirubin grade and alpha-fetoprotein.