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Thoracic epidural anesthesia may provide beneficial effects on postoperative outcome. We strove to compare postoperative outcomes in major liver surgery patients with and without thoracic epidural anesthesia.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>This was a retrospective cohort study in a single university medical center. Patients undergoing elective major liver surgery between April 2012 and December 2016 were eligible for inclusion. We divided patients into two groups according to whether or not they had thoracic epidural anesthesia for major liver surgery. The primary outcome was postoperative hospital length of stay, i.e., from day of surgery until hospital discharge. Secondary outcomes included 30-day postoperative mortality and major postoperative complications. Additionally, we investigated the effect of thoracic epidural anesthesia on perioperative analgesia doses and the safety of thoracic epidural anesthesia.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>Of 328 patients included in this study, 177 (54.3%) received thoracic epidural anesthesia. There were no clinically important differences in postoperative hospital length of stay (11.0 [7.00\u201317.0] vs. 9.00 [7.00\u201314.0] days, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.316, primary outcome), death (0.0 vs. 2.7%, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.995), or the incidence of postoperative renal failure (0.6 vs. 0.0%, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.99), sepsis (0.0 vs. 1.3%, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.21), or pulmonary embolism (0.6 vs. 1.4%, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.59) between patients with or without thoracic epidural anesthesia. Perioperative analgesia doses \u2014 including the intraoperative sufentanil dose (0.228 [0.170\u20130.332] vs. 0.405 [0.315\u20130.565] \u03bcg\u00b7kg<jats:sup>\u22121<\/jats:sup>\u00b7h<jats:sup>\u22121<\/jats:sup>, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> &lt; 0.0001) \u2014 were lower in patients with thoracic epidural anesthesia. No major thoracic epidural anesthesia-associated infections or bleedings occurred.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>This retrospective analysis suggests that thoracic epidural anesthesia does not reduce postoperative hospital length of stay in patients undergoing major liver surgery \u2014 but it may reduce perioperative analgesia doses. Thoracic epidural anesthesia was safe in this cohort of patients undergoing major liver surgery. 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