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WORLD JOURNAL OF SURGERY
Volume 44, Issue 12, Pages 4245-4253Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-020-05774-x
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- Nakatani Foundation for Advancement of Measuring Technologies in Biomedical Engineering
- Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare of Japan
- Japan Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
- Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development-Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology [AMED-CREST] [JP19gm0710008]
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Background Bile leakage is the most common postoperative complication associated with hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery. Until now, however, a rapid, accurate diagnostic method for monitoring intraoperative and postoperative bile leakage had not been established. Method Bilirubin levels in drained abdominal fluids collected from 23 patients who had undergone hepatectomy (n = 22) or liver transplantation (n = 1) were measured using a microplate reader with excitation/emission wavelengths of 497/527 nm after applying 5 mu M of UnaG to the samples. UnaG was also sprayed directly on hepatic raw surfaces in swine hepatectomy models to identify bile leaks by fluorescence imaging. Results The bilirubin levels measured by UnaG fluorescence imaging showed favorable correlations with the results of the conventional light-absorptiometric methods (indirect bilirubin: rs = 0.939,p < 0.001; direct bilirubin: rs = 0.929,p < 0.001). Approximate time required for bilirubin measurements with UnaG was 15 min, whereas it took about 40 min with the conventional method at a hospital laboratory. Following administration of UnaG on hepatic surfaces, the fluorescence imaging identified bile leaks not only on the resected specimens but also in the abdominal cavity of the swine hepatectomy models. Conclusion Fluorescence imaging techniques using UnaG may enable real-time identification of bile leaks during hepatectomy and on-site rapid diagnosis of bile leaks after surgery.
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