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ReviewGastrointestinal tumors2018

Effects of Enteral Immunonutrition in Esophageal Cancer.

Kenji Mimatsu, Nobutada Fukino, Yasuo Ogasawara, Yoko Saino, Takatsugu Oida

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In one paragraph

Review in Gastrointestinal tumors, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 30% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Prehabilitation for esophagectomy.Journal of thoracic disease · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kenji MimatsuDepartment of Surgery, Japan Community Health Care Organization Yokohama Central Hospital, Yokohama, Japan.
Nobutada FukinoDepartment of Surgery, Japan Community Health Care Organization Yokohama Central Hospital, Yokohama, Japan.
Yasuo OgasawaraDepartment of Surgery, Japan Community Health Care Organization Yokohama Central Hospital, Yokohama, Japan.
Yoko SainoDepartment of Nutrition, Japan Community Health Care Organization Yokohama Central Hospital, Yokohama, Japan.
Takatsugu OidaDepartment of Department of Surgery, Kiba Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Social Insurance Yokohama Central Hospital · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundImmunonutrition (IN) significantly reduces the incidence of postoperative infectious complications and the length of hospitalization in patients undergoing major elective surgery for gastrointestinal malignances. However, the clinical benefit of IN in patients who have undergone esophagectomy for esophageal cancer is unclear. Moreover, the effect of enteral IN in patients during preoperative adjuvant chemoradiotherapy and in patients treated with concurrent chemoradiotherapy for advanced esophageal cancer is unknown. SUMMARY: This review analyzes the evidence supporting the enteral administration of IN in patients who have undergone esophagectomy and/or chemoradiotherapy for esophageal cancer. Twelve trials that evaluated IN exclusively in patients who underwent esophagectomy were published between January 1980 and August 2017. Two trials concerning IN during chemoradiotherapy for esophageal cancer were identified in the same period. However, the evidence is insufficient to recommend enteral IN in patients who have undergone esophagectomy and/or chemoradiotherapy for esophageal cancer. KEY MESSAGE: Further evidence from well-designed randomized controlled trials is required to verify the clinical benefits of enteral IN in patients undergoing esophagectomy and/or chemoradiotherapy for esophageal cancer. PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS: Resolvins, which are generated from EPA, are novel anti-inflammatory lipid mediators and may play a key role in the resolution of acute inflammation when IN is supplemented with EPA in patients undergoing severely stressful operations.

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ChemoradiotherapyEsophageal cancerImmunonutritionSurgery

Identifiers

PMID29594107
PMCPMC5869572
OpenAlexW2769546055

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