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ArticleFrontiers in oncology2023

Association between preoperative diagnosis of sarcopenia and postoperative pneumonia in resectable esophageal squamous cell carcinoma patients: a retrospective cohort study.

Zhiyun Xu, Qianwei Wang, Zhenzhong Zhang, Yaning Zhu, Yunyun Chen, Derong Tang, Jianqiang Zhao

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Article in Frontiers in oncology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Zhiyun XuDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, The Affiliated Huaian No. 1 People's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Huaian, China.
Qianwei WangDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, The Affiliated Huaian No. 1 People's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Huaian, China.
Zhenzhong ZhangDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, The Affiliated Huaian No. 1 People's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Huaian, China.
Yaning ZhuDepartment of Pathology, The Affiliated Huaian No. 1 People's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Huaian, China.
Yunyun ChenDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, The Affiliated Huaian No. 1 People's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Huaian, China.
Derong TangDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, The Affiliated Huaian No. 1 People's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Huaian, China.
Jianqiang ZhaoDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, The Affiliated Huaian No. 1 People's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Huaian, China.
Huaian First People’s Hospital · CNNanjing Medical University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Postoperative outcomes for patients suffering from resectable esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) are related to sarcopenia. In patients with resectable ESCC, this study investigated the link between sarcopenia and postoperative pneumonia. Methods: The McKewon procedure was the only one used to treat resectable ESCC patients from January 2018 to December 2021 in this retrospective analysis. Sarcopenia was assessed using skeletal muscles at L3 and planning CT scans. It was defined when PMI was below 6.36 cm Results: The study included 773 patients with resectable ESCC in total. Sarcopenia was an independent risk factor for postoperative pneumonia in individuals with resectable ESCC based on univariate and multivariate analysis (P < 0.05). The stratified analysis indicated that neither of the clinical outcomes in the logistic regression model were affected by gender, age, BMI, smoking, or pre-albumin (P for interaction > 0.006). Conclusion: Following the McKewon procedure, patients with resectable ESCC who were sarcopenic had a higher postoperative pneumonia rate. To prevent the development of postoperative pneumonia during the perioperative period, it may be important to control the incidence of sarcopenia.

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complicationsesophageal squamous cell carcinomaMcKewon procedurepostoperative pneumoniasarcopenia

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