Analysis of the factors affecting the post-treatment fever in 102 TACE procedures for primary hepatic cancer / 介入放射学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To Investigate the factors affecting the post treatment fever in patients with primary liver cancer (PLC) undergone transcatheter arterial chemo embolization(TACE).Methods Seventeen clinical parameters of 102 TACE procedures were determined as independent variables, while the numbers of days running a fever after the procedure of the patients were determined as dependent variables. A multivariate stepwise regression analysis was performed to determine the factors that had affected the duration of fever. Results The factors that affected the fever after TACE were the dose of lipiodol used, ascites, using gelatin sponge(GS), serum albumin level, a history of fever, pre operative leukocyte counts and age. The volume of lipiodol used had played the most important role in affecting febrile time. Conclusions The amount of lipiodol used is the most important factor affecting the post treatment fever in patients with PLC undergone TACE with a tendency of intensification by using GS. The systemic state and the regional state of the liver before the treatments also play some parts in affecting the fever. Some frbrile cases are probably associated with potential infection. The lasting time of fever can be predicted approximately by building up a multivariate regresion equation.