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Validate the Difficulty Scoring System and Develop a Novel Scoring System for Laparoscopic and Robotic Liver Resections

Conditions
Liver Diseases
Interventions
Procedure: Minimally Invasive Liver Resection
Registration Number
NCT05224739
Lead Sponsor
Methodist Health System
Brief Summary

To validate the Iwate difficulty scoring system and Institut Mutualiste Montsouris (IMM) scoring system (Appendix 2) in both laparoscopic and robotic liver resections

Detailed Description

Minimally-invasive liver resections (MILR) are increasingly conducted world-wide today. Several international consensus meetings were convened to enable the safe dissemination of laparoscopic and robotic liver resections. The Iwate difficulty scoring system (Appendix 1) was formulated in Japan to grade the difficulty of liver resections. This was to allow beginners to adopt a stepwise approach to safely perform MILR according to their experience and competency level. Although this system has been recently validated in a recent Japanese multicenter study, it has not been externally validated in a large cohort of patients. Thus far, it has only been validated in several small single center studies. Furthermore, its utility for robotic liver resections has not been well-studied.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
ENROLLING_BY_INVITATION
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
150
Inclusion Criteria
  • All consecutive patients operated at a single institution during a fixed period
  • Most recent operation date allowed (up till December 31, 2020, to allow three months follow-up).
  • All minimally invasive hepatectomy approaches can be included, including lap- assisted (hybrid), hand-assisted, robotic-assisted and pure laparoscopy.
  • The data of all patients including those that had repeat liver resections, concomitant surgeries (e.g. colectomies, hilar lymph node dissection, enbloc resections) may be included
  • Patients with no "liver tumors" such as recurrent pyogenic cholangitis/ gallbladder may be included
  • The site of the "lesion/ pathology" will be considered as the tumor site, size will be considered less than 3 cm unless tumor invades the liver.
Exclusion Criteria
  • • Patients < 18 years of age

    • Patients with liver transplant living donor hepatectomies

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Patients who underwent MILR from January 1, 2000 to December 31, 2020Minimally Invasive Liver ResectionHospital of patients who underwent MILR from January 1, 2000 to December 31, 2020.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Iwate scores for laparoscopic and robotic liver resectionsJanuary 1, 2000 to December 31, 2020

To validate the Iwate difficulty scoring system IMM scoring system in both laparoscopic .and robotic liver resections. The IWATA measures the difficulty index from 0 to 12. The IMM scoring is from code 1 to 11.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Propensity scores for robotic and laparoscopic liver resectionsJanuary 1, 2000 to December 31, 2020

To perform a propensity score matching (including adjustment for difficulty) comparing robotic and laparoscopic liver resections.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Liver Institute of Methodist Dallas Medical Center

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Dallas, Texas, United States

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