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Table 3 Multivariate logistic analysis for the short term poor therapeutic effect (good vs poor)

From: Hemodynamic changes under balloon occlusion of hepatic artery: predictor of the short-term therapeutic effect of balloon-occluded transcatheter arterial chemolipiodolization using miriplatin for hepatocellular carcinoma

Factors

Odds ratio

95 % CI

p value

Level of balloon occlusion (segmental/lobar)

3.59

0.53–33.0

0.191

CTHA finding (Group C)

8.34

1.49–68.8

0.015

CT value after B-TACE (HU)

0.38

0.007–15.0

0.608

  1. CI confidence interval, CTHA CT hepatic arteriography, B-TACE balloon-occluded transcatheter arterial chemoembolization, HU Hounsfield unit