Liver steatosis in pre-transplant liver biopsies can be quantified rapidly and accurately by nuclear magnetic resonance analysis

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• 作者：Stefanie Bertram ; Cathrin Myland ; Sandra Swoboda ; Anja Gallinat…
• 关键词：Liver transplantation ; Steatosis ; Ischemia ; reperfusion injury
• 刊名：Virchows Archiv
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：470
• 期：2
• 页码：197-204
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• 刊物类别：Medicine
• 刊物主题：Pathology;
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：1432-2307
• 卷排序：470

文摘

Donor livers marginally acceptable or acceptable according to extended criteria are more frequently transplanted due to the growing discrepancy between demand and availability of donor organs. One type of marginally acceptable graft is a steatotic donor liver, because it is more sensitive to ischemia-reperfusion injury. Thus, quantitative assessment of steatosis is crucial prior to liver transplantation. Extent of steatosis of 49 pre-reperfusion liver biopsies from patients who received orthotopic liver transplantation was assessed by three techniques: semi-quantitative histological evaluation, computerized histomorphometry, and NMR-based estimation of fat content. The findings were correlated to clinical data and to histological examination of corresponding post-reperfusion biopsies for quantification of ischemia-reperfusion injury. We found that values obtained through all three assessment methods were positively correlated. None of the values obtained by the three applied methods correlated with clinical outcome or extent of ischemia-reperfusion injury. Quantitative evaluation of steatosis by NMR yields results comparable to histological and morphometrical assessment. This technique is rapid (<5 min), accurately quantifies fat in donor livers, and provides results that can be used when evaluation by a pathologist is not available.