Research Article
Hepatic Arterial Therapy with Drug-Eluting Beads in the Management of Metastatic Pancreatic Carcinoma to the Liver: A Multi-Institutional Registry
Table 3
Bead catheter infusion outcomes.
| | = total treatments = 17 |
| Number of bead courses | Median −1.5 (range) (1–3) |
| Technical success | 100% |
| Dosage delivered (median, range) | (100, 25–150) |
| Total hepatic dose exposure for all LC Irinotecan Doxorubicin | Beads 250 mg (100–400) 150 mg (100–450) |
| Bead size utilized | | 100–300 μ 300–500 μ 500–700 μ | 13 4 0 |
| Complications | 4 (24%) |
| Extrahepatic infusion | 0 |
| Hematologic changes | | WBC HGB Bilirubin | −0.23 (−.45–3.0) 0.8 (−1.1–2.1) 0.3 (−0.4–0.8) |
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