Preoperative imaging findings to predict 2-year native liver survival after the Kasai procedure in patients with biliary atresia.
Harim KimSo-Young YooJi Hye KimMin-Ji KimSanghoon LeeTae Yeon JeonPublished in: European radiology (2023)
• Preoperative US and/or MRI can predict the probability of achieving 2-year native liver survival following the Kasai procedure. • Combining US and MRI improved the accuracy to 85% for predicting 2-year native liver survival in BA patients. • The hepatic artery diameter > 2 mm (US), gallbladder length < 1.6 cm (US) or < 1.2 cm (MRI), spleen size > 6.9 cm (MRI), and no biliary cysts (US/MRI) are significant predictors of Kasai failure in patients with biliary atresia.
Keyphrases
- contrast enhanced
- magnetic resonance imaging
- diffusion weighted imaging
- end stage renal disease
- patients undergoing
- computed tomography
- minimally invasive
- chronic kidney disease
- newly diagnosed
- high resolution
- peritoneal dialysis
- prognostic factors
- photodynamic therapy
- mass spectrometry
- optical coherence tomography
- free survival
- fluorescence imaging