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Preoperative controlling nutritional status (CONUT) is useful to estimate the prognosis after esophagectomy for esophageal cancer.
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- Association of preoperative controlling nutritional status score with clinical outcomes among surgical patients with esophageal cancer: a meta-analysis.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Pooled it
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- Preoperative Smoking Cessation and Prognosis After Curative Esophagectomy for Esophageal Cancer: A Cross-Sectional Study.Annals of surgical oncology · 2022Article
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- High Pretreatment Mean Corpuscular Volume Can Predict Worse Prognosis in Patients With Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma who Have Undergone Curative Esophagectomy: A Retrospective Multicenter Cohort Study.Annals of surgery open : perspectives of surgical history, education, and clinical approaches · 2022Article
- Prognostic Value of Pretreatment Red Blood Cell Distribution Width in Patients With Esophageal Cancer Who Underwent Esophagectomy: A Retrospective Study.Annals of surgery open : perspectives of surgical history, education, and clinical approaches · 2022Article
- Patients scheduled to undergo esophageal surgery should have the highest priority for perioperative oral management triage: a cross-sectional study.General thoracic and cardiovascular surgery · 2022Article
- Clinical significance of controlling nutritional status score (CONUT) in evaluating outcome of postoperative patients with gastric cancer.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- The usefulness of pretreatment controlling nutritional status score for predicting recurrence in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma undergoing neoadjuvant immunochemotherapy: A real-world study.Frontiers in immunology · 2022Article
- Comparison of Preoperative Nutritional Indexes for Outcomes after Primary Esophageal Surgery for Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma.Nutrients · 2021Observational
- Identification of diagnostic and prognostic signatures derived from preoperative blood parameters for oral squamous cell carcinoma.Annals of translational medicine · 2021Article
- Comparative analysis of the prognostic utility of preoperative nutritional parameters in patients with resectable esophageal carcinoma.General thoracic and cardiovascular surgery · 2021Article
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Abstract
purposeThe aim of this study is to confirm the predictive value of controlling nutritional status (CONUT), as a postoperative prognostic marker for esophageal cancer patients undergoing esophagectomy.
methodsWe retrospectively analyzed 373 patients who underwent three-incision esophagectomy with 2- or 3-field lymphadenectomy for esophageal cancer between April 2005 and March 2016. The patients were divided into three groups based on the degree of preoperative malnutrition as assessed by CONUT: normal, light malnutrition, and moderate or severe malnutrition.
resultsThe patients with moderate or severe malnutrition experienced a significantly higher frequency of reoperation (normal or light malnutrition, 6.3%; moderate or severe malnutrition, 18.2%; P = 0.033) and a higher tendency for respiratory morbidities (normal or light malnutrition, 14.0%; moderate or severe malnutrition, 27.3%; P = 0.088). Cox regression analysis identified a significantly poor prognosis, in both overall survival (hazard ratio (HR), 3.56; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.714-7.390; P < 0.001) and cancer-specific survival (HR, 3.41; 95% CI, 1.790-6.516; P = 0.046).
conclusionsCONUT is convenient and useful for preoperatively assessing malnutrition and prognosis of esophageal cancer patients who underwent surgery.
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