The significance of prothrombin induced by vitamin K absence-Ⅱ in predicting the biological characteristics of hepatitis B virus-associated hepatocellular carcinoma_West China Medical Journal

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LUO Limei , SU Zhenzhen , ZHAO Wenling , MENG Liye , LI Lixin , CAI Bei , BAI Yangjuan ,  HUANG Zhuochun

Department of Laboratory Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, P. R. China;

Corresponding author：

HUANG Zhuochun, Email: huangzcscu@163.com

Keywords：

Hepatitis B viral; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Prothrombin induced by vitamin K absence-Ⅱ; Microvascular invasion

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10.7507/1002-0179.202007057

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Objective To explore the predictive value of serum prothrombin induced by vitamin K absence-Ⅱ (PIVKA-Ⅱ) detection for the biological characteristics of hepatitis B virus (HBV)-associated hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).Methods This retrospective study included 394 patients with HBV-related HCC who were newly diagnosed and treated with surgical resection in West China Hospital of Sichuan University between June 2017 and December 2018. Their clinical information such as tumor size, tumor number, tumor cell differentiation, presence of microvascular invasion (MVI), distant metastasis, and portal vein tumor thrombus was collected from the medical record. The laboratory test results of patients during diagnosis and before surgery were collected, including alpha-fetoprotein (AFP), PIVKA-Ⅱ, alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), gamma-glutamyl transferase (γ-GGT), etc., and the relationships between PIVKA-Ⅱ levels and tumor biological characteristics were analyzed. Non-normal continuous variables were presented as medium (lower quartile, upper quartile).Results Compared with the patients with low HCC serum PIVKA-Ⅱ levels (≤40 mAU/mL), patients with high serum PIVKA-Ⅱ levels (>40 mAU/mL) had larger tumor diameters [5.00 (3.00, 9.00) vs. 2.50 (1.63, 4.95) cm, P<0.001], more severe Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) stage (P<0.001), and higher AFP [186.05 (6.86, 1 210.00) vs. 17.83 (4.33, 231.95) ng/mL, P<0.001], ALT [38.00 (26.00, 66.25) vs. 32.00 (22.00, 51.00) U/L, P=0.018], AST [42.00 (30.00, 76.00) vs. 34.00 (25.50, 48.25) U/L, P<0.001], and γ-GGT [71.00 (39.00, 165.50) vs. 55.50 (25.00, 93.00) U/L, P=0.005], and were more likely to form portal vein tumor thrombi (16.61% vs. 3.75%, P=0.003) and MVI (43.67% vs. 11.11%, P<0.001). In BCLC stage 0 HCC patients, the positive rate of PIVKA-Ⅱ was only 51.35%. Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that PIVKA-Ⅱ>40 mAU/mL was an independent predictor of MVI [odds ratio=6.588, 95% confidence interval (CI) (1.645, 26.383), P=0.008]. The area under receiver operating characteristic curve of PIVKA-Ⅱ level predicting MVI was 0.761 [95%CI (0.693, 0.830)], with a sensitivity of 66.22% and a specificity of 79.06%.Conclusion In HBV-related HCC patients, high PIVKA-Ⅱ is associated with the poor biological characteristics of tumor, and is an independent risk factor for tumor MVI.

Citation： LUO Limei, SU Zhenzhen, ZHAO Wenling, MENG Liye, LI Lixin, CAI Bei, BAI Yangjuan, HUANG Zhuochun. The significance of prothrombin induced by vitamin K absence-Ⅱ in predicting the biological characteristics of hepatitis B virus-associated hepatocellular carcinoma. West China Medical Journal, 2020, 35(12): 1471-1477. doi: 10.7507/1002-0179.202007057 Copy

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2. Tang ZY, Ye SL, Liu YK, et al. A decade’s studies on metastasis of hepatocellular carcinoma. J Cancer Res Clin Oncol, 2004, 130: 187-196.
3. Yang Y, Nagano H, Ota H, et al. Patterns and clinicopathologic features of extrahepatic recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma after curative resection. Surgery, 2007, 141: 196-202.
4. Rodriguez-Perálvarez M, Luong TV, Andreana L, et al. A systematic review of microvascular invasion in hepatocellular carcinoma: diagnostic and prognostic variability. Ann Surg Oncol, 2013, 20: 325-339.
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6. Johnson PJ. The role of serum alpha-fetoprotein estimation in the diagnosis and management of hepatocellular carcinoma. Clin Liver Dis, 2001, 5(1): 145-159.
7. Liebman HA, Furie BC, Tong MJ, et al. Des-gamma-carboxy (abnormal) prothrombin as a serum marker of primary hepatocellular carcinoma. N Engl J Med, 1984, 310(22): 1427-1431.
8. Hirokawa F, Hayashi M, Miyamoto Y, et al. Outcomes and predictors of microvascular invasion of solitary hepatocellular carcinoma. Hepatol Res, 2014, 44(8): 846-853.
9. Poté N, Cauchy F, Albuquerque M, et al. Performance of PIVKA-Ⅱfor early hepatocellular carcinoma diagnosis and prediction of microvascular invasion. J Hepatol, 2015, 62(4): 848-854.
10. Svobodova S, Karlikova M, Topolcan O, et al. PIVKA-Ⅱ as a potential new biomarker for hepatocellular carcinoma - A pilot study. In Vivo, 2018, 32(6): 1551-1554.
11. Wu J, Xiang Z, Bai L, et al. Diagnostic value of serum PIVKA-Ⅱ levels for BCLC early hepatocellular carcinoma and correlation with HBV DNA. Cancer Biomark, 2018, 23(2): 235-242.
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