Trial reportGastric cancer : official journal of the International Gastric Cancer Association and the Japanese Gastric Cancer Association2017
Protocol for enhanced recovery after surgery improves short-term outcomes for patients with gastric cancer: a randomized clinical trial.
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- Japanese gastric cancer treatment guidelines 2025 (7th edition).Gastric cancer : official journal of the International Gastric Cancer Association and the Japanese Gastric Cancer Association · 2026Guideline
- Enhanced recovery after gastrectomy: updated Meta-analysis of 27 randomized trials (2018-2025).BMC surgery · 2025Pooled it
- Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Guidelines and Hospital Length of Stay, Readmission, Complications, and Mortality: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials.JAMA network open · 2024Pooled it
- Global updates in the treatment of gastric cancer: a systematic review. Part 2: perioperative management, multimodal therapies, new technologies, standardization of the surgical treatment and educational aspects.Updates in surgery · 2020Pooled it
- The application of enhanced recovery after surgery for upper gastrointestinal surgery: Meta-analysis.BMC surgery · 2020Pooled it
- Application of enhanced recovery after gastric cancer surgery: An updated meta-analysis.World journal of gastroenterology · 2018Pooled it
- Effect of restrictive versus liberal fluid therapy for laparoscopic gastric surgery on postoperative complications: a randomized controlled trial.Journal of anesthesia · 2025Trial
- Impact of drinking Chinese green tea on postoperative short outcomes for gastric cancer: a randomized controlled trial.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2021Trial
- The impact of multimodal analgesia based enhanced recovery protocol on quality of recovery after laparoscopic gynecological surgery: a randomized controlled trial.BMC anesthesiology · 2021Trial
- A Nomogram for Prediction of Survival in Patients After Gastrectomy Within Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS): A Single-Center Retrospective Study.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2020Trial
- The impact of preoperative carbohydrate loading on intraoperative body temperature: a randomized controlled clinical trial.Surgical endoscopy · 2018Trial
- Impact of the Cachexia Index on survival and recurrence in patients undergoing surgery for gastric cancer.Surgery today · 2026Article
- Application of enhanced recovery after surgery techniques in gastrointestinal surgery patients.World journal of gastrointestinal surgery · 2025Article
- Higher compliance with the enhanced recovery after surgery protocol improves postoperative recovery and 6-month mortality in upper gastrointestinal surgery.Surgery in practice and science · 2024Article
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- Is recovery enhancement after gastric cancer surgery really a safe approach for elderly patients?World journal of gastrointestinal oncology · 2024Article
- Association of adherence to the enhanced recovery after surgery pathway and outcomes after laparoscopic total gastrectomy.BMC anesthesiology · 2024Article
- A clinical study on gastric cancer patients administered EN and PN versus PN alone in enhanced recovery after surgery.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2024Article
- The application of enhanced recovery after surgery in total gastrectomy: a propensity score-matched analysis.World journal of surgical oncology · 2023Article
- The usefulness of presepsin in the diagnosis of postoperative infectious complications after gastrectomy for gastric cancer: a prospective cohort study.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe feasibility of the use of the enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocol in patients with gastric cancer remains unclear.
methodsThis study was a single-center, prospective randomized trial involving patients with gastric cancer undergoing curative gastrectomy. The primary end point was the length of postoperative hospital stay. Secondary end points were the postoperative complication rate, admission costs, weight loss, and amount of physical activity.
resultsFrom July 2013 to June 2015, we randomized 148 patients into an ERAS protocol group (n = 73) and a conventional protocol group (n = 69); six patients withdrew from the study. The hospital stay was significantly shorter in the ERAS protocol group than in the conventional protocol group (9 days vs 10 days; P = 0.037). The ERAS protocol group had a significantly lower rate of postoperative complications of grade III or higher (4.1% vs 15.4%; P = 0.042) and reduced costs of hospitalization (JPY 1,462,766 vs JPY 1,493,930; P = 0.045). The ratio of body weight to preoperative weight at 1 week and 1 month after the operation was higher in the ERAS protocol group (0.962 vs 0.957, P = 0.020, and 0.951 vs 0.937, P = 0.021, respectively). The ERAS protocol group recorded more physical activity in the first week after surgery.
conclusionsThe ERAS protocol is safe and efficient, and seems to improve the postoperative course of patients with gastric cancer.
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