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.

𝑁 = total treatments = 17

Number of bead coursesMedian −1.5
(range) (1–3)

Technical success100%

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

Complications4 (24%)

Extrahepatic infusion0

Hematologic changes
 WBC
 HGB
 Bilirubin
−0.23 (−.45–3.0)
0.8 (−1.1–2.1)
0.3 (−0.4–0.8)