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ArticleFrontiers in nutrition2025

Perioperative evaluation of CT-based body composition as predictors of postoperative outcome following pancreaticoduodenectomy.

Lina Cai, Sizhen Wang, Yehua Xie, Hengyu Zheng, Daojun Zhu, Yi Xiao, Xinbo Wang, Xianghong Ye

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Lina Cai *Research Institute of General Surgery, Jinling Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.
Sizhen Wang *Research Institute of General Surgery, Jinling Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.
Yehua XieResearch Institute of General Surgery, Jinling Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.
Hengyu ZhengResearch Institute of General Surgery, Jinling Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.
Daojun ZhuResearch Institute of General Surgery, Jinling Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.
Yi XiaoResearch Institute of General Surgery, Jinling Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.
Xinbo WangResearch Institute of General Surgery, Jinling Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.
Xianghong YeResearch Institute of General Surgery, Jinling Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.

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Background: Although malnutrition is a concern for incremental morbidity in pancreatic surgery, there has been a lack of consensus on nutritional assessment and body composition suitable for prediction of postoperative complications following pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD). Our study was performed to assess whether perioperative CT-based body composition were predictors of morbidity after PD. Methods: 231 patients who underwent PD between 2020 and 2024 were enrolled to evaluate perioperative body composition. Uni and multivariate logistic regression models were applied to analyze the correlation between major complications, clinically relevant postoperative fistula (CR-POPF) and body composition abnormalities. Results: For 231 patients, the incidence of sarcopenia and visceral obesity was 151 (65.4) and 97 (42.0). The incidence of complications, major complications and CR-POPF was 68.0, 33.3 and 10.8%. SMI was the only risk factor for complications [odds ratio (OR), 0.92, 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.85-1.00, Conclusion: Patients with depleted skeletal muscle mass were more likely to develop postoperative complications, while there was no association between perioperative sarcopenia or visceral obesity and major complications or CR-POPF. The study highlights that the highly homogenized and fully managed surgical quality may offset the negative effects of nutritional high-risk factors.

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body compositionpancreaticoduodenectomypostoperative pancreatic fistulasarcopeniavisceral obesity

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