Harald Grut1, Pål-Dag Line2,3, Trygve Syversveen4, Svein Dueland3. 1. Department of Radiology, Vestre Viken Hospital Trust, 3004, Drammen, Norway. harald.grut@gmail.com. 2. Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. 3. Department of Transplantation Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway. 4. Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To report 15 years of experience with metabolic tumor volume (MTV) of liver metastases from the preoperative 18F-FDG PET/CT to predict long-term survival after liver transplantation (LT) for unresectable colorectal liver metastases (CRLM). METHODS: The preoperative 18F-FDG PET/CT from all SECA 1 and 2 patients was evaluated. MTV was obtained from all liver metastases. The patients were divided into one group with low MTV (< 70 cm3) and one group with high MTV (> 70 cm3) based on a receiver operating characteristic analysis. Overall survival (OS), disease-free survival (DFS) and post recurrence survival (PRS) for patients with low versus high MTV were compared using the Kaplan-Meier method and log rank test. Clinopathological features between the two groups were compared by a nonparametric Mann-Whitney U test for continuous and Fishers exact test for categorical data. RESULTS: At total of 40 patients were included. Patients with low MTV had significantly longer OS (p < 0.001), DFS (p < 0.001) and PRS (p = 0.006) compared to patients with high values. The patients with high MTV had higher CEA levels, number of liver metastases, size of the largest liver metastasis, N-stage, number of chemotherapy lines and more frequently progression of disease at LT compared to the patients with low MTV. CONCLUSION: MTV of liver metastases is highly predictive of long-term OS, DFS and PRS after LT for unresectable CRLM and should be implemented in risk stratification prior to LT.
OBJECTIVE: To report 15 years of experience with metabolic tumor volume (MTV) of liver metastases from the preoperative 18F-FDG PET/CT to predict long-term survival after liver transplantation (LT) for unresectable colorectal liver metastases (CRLM). METHODS: The preoperative 18F-FDG PET/CT from all SECA 1 and 2 patients was evaluated. MTV was obtained from all liver metastases. The patients were divided into one group with low MTV (< 70 cm3) and one group with high MTV (> 70 cm3) based on a receiver operating characteristic analysis. Overall survival (OS), disease-free survival (DFS) and post recurrence survival (PRS) for patients with low versus high MTV were compared using the Kaplan-Meier method and log rank test. Clinopathological features between the two groups were compared by a nonparametric Mann-Whitney U test for continuous and Fishers exact test for categorical data. RESULTS: At total of 40 patients were included. Patients with low MTV had significantly longer OS (p < 0.001), DFS (p < 0.001) and PRS (p = 0.006) compared to patients with high values. The patients with high MTV had higher CEA levels, number of liver metastases, size of the largest liver metastasis, N-stage, number of chemotherapy lines and more frequently progression of disease at LT compared to the patients with low MTV. CONCLUSION: MTV of liver metastases is highly predictive of long-term OS, DFS and PRS after LT for unresectable CRLM and should be implemented in risk stratification prior to LT.
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