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    Portal Vein Thrombosis and Markers of Inflammation in Hepatocellular Carcinoma
    (Springer, 2020) Carr, B. I.; Guerra, V.; Donghia, R.
    Background Macroscopic portal vein thrombosis (PVT) is a major poor prognosis factor in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Inflammation is increasingly recognized to be part of the hepatocarcinogenic process and its markers are also prognostically useful. Aims To examine the relationship of inflammation biomarkers to the presence of PVT and to survival in PVT patients with HCC. Methods A large HCC cohort was examined for the presence of PVT and analyzed retrospectively. Results Blood levels of NLR, PLR, ESR, CRP, AFP and GGTP were significantly related to the presence of PVT, but not the Glasgow Index. For patients with low alpha-fetoprotein levels, blood ESR and GGTP levels were also significantly increased in patients with PVT compared with those in patients without PVT. In a Cox regression model, serum GGTP levels had a significantly increased hazard ratio on death (1.52,p = 0.008). Kaplan-Meier analysis showed that PVT patients with low serum GGTP levels had significantly longer survival than PVT patients with high GGTP levels (p = 0.0041). Conclusions Indices of inflammation, especially serum GGTP levels, related significantly to the presence of PVT and to survival in HCC patients with PVT.
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    Trends in Tumor Indices in Relation to Increased Hepatocellular Carcinoma Size: Evidence for Tumor Evolution as a Function of Growth
    (Springer, 2020) Carr, Brian I.; Guerra, V.; Donghia, R.; Yilmaz, S.
    Background The prognosis of HCC depends in large measure on maximum tumor diameter (MTD). Aims To examine characteristics of tumor aggressiveness over an MTD range of< 2 to 8 cm. Methods A large HCC database was examined retrospectively for trends in serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP), and percent of patients with macroscopic portal vein thrombosis (PVT) or tumor multifocality. Results There was a significant trend to increased serum AFP levels and percent of patients with PVT, for each,p < 0.001. Within those trends, there were clearly identifiable sub-trends for variations of AFP or percent PVT patients, associated with specific MTD ranges. Calculation of the fold increase for either AFP or percent PVT patients over distinct MTD ranges showed a greater increase of AFP or percent PVT patients compared with the related MTD increase. Interestingly, the increase in percent PVT was mainly independent of AFP. Conclusions Patterns of AFP and PVT increase can be discerned with increasing MTD, which are nonlinear. The greater fold increase in tumor aggressiveness factors compared with MTD suggests that HCCs may change with increasing size to a more aggressive phenotype. Baseline HCC biopsies might therefore be insufficient in future rational HCC management, and repeated liquid biopsies have potential in following HCC evolution and thus choices of therapies.