Alexa Colgrove Curtis, Courtney Keeler
Interpretive Methodologies in Qualitative Nursing Research
The American journal of nursing
conduct systematic review explore therapeutic effect transcatheter arterial chemoembolisation tace combined portal vein embolisation pve patients hepatocellular carcinoma hcc chinese english databases pubmed web science cochrane library china national knowledge infrastructure wanfang database vip database searched database inception 15 august 2023 studies comparing tace combined pve versus tace alone patients hcc included degree heterogeneity assessed using i2 statistics qtest effect size represented risk ratio rr mean difference md effect size range estimated using 95 confidence interval ci eight eligible studies included systematic review involving 689 participants results showed future liver residual flr patients treated tace combined pve significantly higher treated pve alone md399 95ci 103694 furthermore compared pve alone tace combined pve positive effect diseasefree survival odds ratio or216 95ci 120388 recurrence rate or079 95ci 007942 complications or053 95ci 030096 statistically significant impact mortality tace combined pve treatment combination tace pve significantly reduce flr patients hcc higher diseasefree survival lower recurrence rate fewer complications