North American Center Achieves Global Benchmark for Laparoscopic Liver Resections

A single-center study evaluated laparoscopic liver resections at Toronto General Hospital to compare their performance with established global benchmarks. Out of 178 cases analyzed, 25% qualified as low-risk cases. For these low-risk cases, the postoperative major morbidity and 90-day mortality rates after different types of liver resections were all at 0%. High-risk cases post-2017 had good outcomes except for one category, while high-risk cases operated before 2017 had some outcomes that didn’t meet the global cut-off. The study demonstrates that the North American center achieved outcomes comparable to global benchmarks for laparoscopic liver resections.