Liver Transplantation With Two-stage Liver Resection in Unresectable Liver Cancer , Metastases or Emd-stage Liver Disease (LTLR-LC)

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Hepatic Cancer; Liver Transplant Disorder; End-stage Liver Disease

Treatments: Procedure: assisted liver transplantation combined with two-stage hepatectomy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05750329

Renji-LT-2022-0001

Details and patient eligibility

About

Colon cancer and primary liver cancer are common malignant tumors with low survival rate worldwide, and unresectable primary liver cancer and colon cancer liver metastases have worse prognosis. End-stage liver disease is equated with advanced liver disease, liver failure and decompensated cirrhosis because they are generally irreversible. Liver transplantation is a treatment option for the above-mentioned patients and is expected to improve the prognosis of the patients, but the biggest problem faced by such patients is the shortage of donor livers. Recently, a new surgical modality, resection and partial liver segment 2-3 transplantation with delayed total hepatectomy (RAPID), can greatly alleviate these problems.Based on clinical surgical experience, our center proposes and designs a clinical study of adjuvant liver transplantation combined with two-stage hepatectomy in the treatment of patients with unresectable primary liver cancer, colorectal cancer liver metastases, or end-stage liver disease. By improvement of RAPID operation, the safety and efficacy of this treatment method in patients with those disease were evaluated.

Enrollment: 30 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. aged 18-75 years;
2. patients with unresectable primary hepatocellular carcinoma or colorectal cancer with liver metastases who also meet the following criteria: tumor shrinkage (still unresectable) or no significant progression after a first-line chemotherapy regimen of 6-8 weeks; no other abdominal metastases or 1-3 resectable pulmonary metastases;
3. patients with end-stage liver disease;
4. preoperative Child classification of A or B, able to tolerate the subsequent surgical program
5. Signed informed consent Note: One of the second or third criteria needs to be fulfilled and all the rest of the selection criteria need to be fulfilled

Exclusion criteria

1. Extrahepatic tumor burden (except for resectable lung metastases) and/or macrovascular tumor infiltration
2. Tumor progression during chemotherapy or important comorbidities that affect surgery
3. Uncorrectable cardiopulmonary disease with high surgical risk
4. Anatomical abnormalities that preclude liver transplantation
5. Persistent non-compliance with medical care
6. Combined with other diseases such as AIDS that affect surgery or tumor progression

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 1 patient group

Surgical group

Experimental group

Description:

All patients underwent left hepatectomy combined with orthotopic S2-3 liver segment transplantation, and then underwent autologous right hepatectomy after the graft had grown sufficiently large.

Treatment:

Procedure: assisted liver transplantation combined with two-stage hepatectomy