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Objective The relationship between fever and the recent curative effect of transcatheter arte -rial chemoembolization ( TACE) and the related factors of fever after transcatheter arterial chemoembolization in large hepatocellular carcinoma is discussed in this paper .Methods One hundred and twenty patients with large liver cancer were divided into two groups according to the fever after TACE .The fever in group A ,and there was no fever in group B after TACE .The changes of the lesions in the two groups were compared after the first inter-ventional treatment .The factors affecting the fever after TACE were analyzed .Results The CT was performed at about one and half month after the first intervention .The curative effects of A and B were evaluated by RECIST criteria.Two groups of CR,PR,SD,PD were 0,11.11%,71.11%,17.78%and 0,0,33.33%,66.67%,respec-tively.The difference of the efficiency of OR was statistically significant (P=0.049).The probability of fever of four types of iodine oil deposits are as follows:100%,93.33%,81.93%,0.Blood supply type,middle and severe hepatic arteriovenous fistula,the use of gelatin sponge,tumor necrosis,and the use of iodine oil were more than 25ml may be factors affecting postoperative fever .Conclusion The clinical symptoms of fever after TACE sug-gest that the lesion is well embolization and iodine oil deposit is good ,and the lesion is not easy to progress ,and short-term curative effect is better .The analysis of the factors that affect the postoperative fever may help to eval-uate the curative effect of patients with large hepatocellular carcinoma .
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Objective To investigate the relationship between the liver pain and the short-term curative effect in patients with primary hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC)after transcatheter arterial chemoembolization(TACE).Methods According to the degree of liver pain,118 HCC patients after the initial TACE treatment were divided into two groups:group A(with no complaint of serious liver pain)and group B (complaining of severe liver pain).Short-term curative effects at the fourth and sixth week after initial TACE were compared between the two groups,and the factors related to the liver pain after TACE were analyzed.Results Four to six weeks after the initial TACE,CT scan was performed in all patients.Based on the RECIST criteria the short-term curative effects were evaluated.The CR,PR,SD,PD of group A and B were 0%.1.45%.88.41%,10.14%and 0%,14.29%.81.63%,4.08%,respectively.The difference in OR(CR +PR)between two groups was statistically significant(P=0.0087).The postoperative liver pain was probably related to the preoperative tumor blood supply pattern,the tumor capsule.the cirrhosis and the type of iodized oil deposit.The type of iodized oil deposit showed a negative correlation with the grade of liver pain (r=-0.539,P＜0.001).Conclusion The liver pain occurred after TACE is a useful suggestive sign,which indicates that a good curative result will be obtained.It is of clinical significance to make a full understanding of the relationship between the liver pain and the therapeutic effect.