ArticleJournal of oncology2019
The Incidence of Postoperative Complications after Gastrectomy Increases in Proportion to the Amount of Preoperative Visceral Fat.
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- Robotic versus laparoscopic gastrectomy for gastric cancer in overweight patients, with obesity, or high visceral adiposity: a systematic review and meta-analysis of East Asian Cohorts.Journal of robotic surgery · 2026Pooled it
- Preoperative visceral fat area predicts intraoperative adverse events during lymphadenectomy in laparoscopic gastrectomy for gastric cancer: a post hoc analysis.Surgical endoscopy · 2025Trial
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- Safety, Compliance, and Efficacy of Prehabilitation in Obese Patients with Gastric Cancer Undergoing Minimally Invasive Gastrectomy: A Pilot Prospective Study.Annals of nutrition & metabolism · 2025Article
- LightGBM is an Effective Predictive Model for Postoperative Complications in Gastric Cancer: A Study Integrating Radiomics with Ensemble Learning.Journal of imaging informatics in medicine · 2024Article
- Visceral fat area is a better indicator of surgical outcomes after laparoscopic gastrectomy for cancer than the body mass index: a propensity score-matched analysis.Surgical endoscopy · 2022Article
- Trunk fat volume can be a predictor of postoperative complications after gastrectomy: a retrospective cohort study.BMC surgery · 2021Article
- A Sarcopenia-Based Prediction Model for Postoperative Complications of ex vivo Liver Resection and Autotransplantation to Treat End-Stage Hepatic Alveolar Echinococcosis.Infection and drug resistance · 2021Article
- Impact of the preoperative body composition indexes on intraoperative blood loss in patients undergoing pancreatoduodenectomy.Surgery today · 2021Observational
- Clinical Impact of a Perioperative Exercise Program for Sarcopenia and Overweight/Obesity Gastric Cancer.In vivo (Athens, Greece)Review
- Computed Tomography-based Assessment of Visceral Fat for Predicting Intra-abdominal Infectious Complications After Gastrectomy in Patients With Gastric Cancer.In vivo (Athens, Greece)Article
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Abstract
backgroundVisceral obesity is a risk factor for complications after gastrectomy in patients with gastric cancer. However, it is unclear whether postoperative complications decrease with preoperative reduction of visceral fat without the achievement of a nonobese state. This is because previous studies have performed categorical comparisons of obesity and nonobesity. The current study was performed to estimate the impact of the preoperative visceral fat area (VFA) as a continuous variable on postoperative complications after gastrectomy.
methodsConsecutive patients with gastric cancer who underwent curative gastrectomy between June 2006 and August 2017 at the Kyoto University Hospital were included in this retrospective study. The VFA at the level of the umbilicus was measured using preoperative computed tomography. The relationship between postoperative complications and VFA was investigated with univariate and multivariate analyses.
resultstotal of 566 patients were included in the study. Their mean VFA was 110 ± 58 cm
conclusionThe incidence of postoperative complications after gastrectomy increases in proportion to an increase in the preoperative VFA.
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