Citation

Ishida K, Katayama Y, Kitamura T, Hirose T, Ojima M, Nakao S, Tachino J, Umemura Y, Kiguchi T, Matsuyama T, Noda T, Kiyohara K, Shimazu T, Ohnishi M. Acute Med. Surg. 2022; 9(1): e725.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2022, Japanese Association for Acute Medicine, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/ams2.725

PMID

35059219

PMCID

PMC8757632

Abstract

AIM: To assess relationships between abdominal angiography and outcomes in adults with blunt liver injuries.

METHODS: A retrospective observational study carried out from January 2004 to December 2018. Adult blunt-trauma patients with AAST grade Ⅲ-Ⅴ were analyzed with in-hospital mortality as the primary outcome using propensity-score-(PS) matching to seek associations with abdominal angiography findings.

RESULTS: A total of 1,821 patients were included, of which 854 had available abdominal angiography data (AA+) and 967 did not (AA-). From these, 562 patients were selected from each group by propensity score matching. In-hospital mortality was found to be lower in the AA+ than in the AA- group (15.1% [87/562] versus 25.4% [143/562]; odds ratio 0.544, 95% confidence interval 0.398-0.739).

CONCLUSION: Abdominal angiography is shown to be of benefit for adult patients with blunt liver injury in terms of their lower in-hospital mortality.

Language: en

Keywords

liver injury; Abdominal angiography; in‐hospital mortality; propensity score‐matching