ArticleGeneral thoracic and cardiovascular surgery2021
Postoperative pneumonia causes the loss of skeletal muscle volume and poor prognosis in patients undergoing esophagectomy for esophageal cancer.
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- Impact of pulmonary complications following esophagectomy on long-term survival: multivariate meta-analysis and restricted mean survival time assessment.Updates in surgery · 2024Pooled it
- Development and Validation of a New Integrative Score Based on Various Systemic Inflammatory and Nutritional Indicators in Predicting Prognosis in Patients With Resectable Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Cancer control : journal of the Moffitt Cancer CenterTrial
- Respiratory sarcopenia defined by paraspinal muscle mass and peak expiratory flow predicts postoperative pneumonia after esophagectomy for esophageal cancer: a comparison with sternocleidomastoid muscle mass.Esophagus : official journal of the Japan Esophageal Society · 2026Article
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- The Effects of Type 2 Diabetes on Postoperative Pneumonia in Patients with Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy · 2025Article
- Preoperative physical activity is associated with prognosis in patients with esophageal cancer undergoing thoracoscopic-laparoscopic esophagectomy after neoadjuvant chemotherapy.General thoracic and cardiovascular surgery · 2024Observational
- Pivotal role of myeloid-derived suppressor cells in infection-related tumor growth.Cancer medicine · 2024Article
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- Clinical significance of postoperative subcutaneous emphysema after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for esophageal cancer.Surgical endoscopy · 2023Article
- Nomogram prediction model of postoperative pneumonia in patients with lung cancer: A retrospective cohort study.Frontiers in oncology · 2023Article
- Risk Factors for Postoperative Pneumonia: A Case-Control Study.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Euclidean Geometry Versus Metabolic Biochemistry in the Prognostic Evaluation of Thymic Epithelial Tumors.Annals of surgical oncology · 2021Article
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Abstract
purposesThis retrospective study investigated the effect of postoperative pneumonia on the loss of skeletal muscle volume after esophagectomy for esophageal cancer.
methodsA total of 123 patients who had undergone esophagectomy for esophageal cancer and had (30 patients) or did not have (93 patients) postoperative pneumonia were included in the analysis. The association of clinicopathological characteristics with loss of skeletal muscle volume and long-term survival were evaluated in patients with or without postoperative pneumonia.
resultsThere were no differences in the psoas muscle volume index (PI), lymphocyte count, serum albumin level, or prognostic nutritional index between the two groups both preoperatively and at 6 months after surgery. The decrease in PI at 6 months after surgery was significant in patients with postoperative pneumonia (- 9.9 ± 2.5%) but not in those without pneumonia (- 2.6 ± 1.6%). Patients with postoperative pneumonia had a significantly increased frequency of asymptomatic pneumonia at 6 months after surgery compared with those who did not have postoperative pneumonia (36.7% vs. 19.4%). Overall survival was significantly poorer in patients with postoperative pneumonia than in those without pneumonia (p < 0.05).
conclusionsPostoperative pneumonia was associated with the loss of skeletal muscle volume and asymptomatic pneumonia within 6 months of surgery as well as poorer overall survival.
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