@article{APM32015,
author = {Gu-Ha A-Lai and Han-Yu Deng and Tie-Niu Song and Jun Luo and Ze-Guo Zhuo and Xu Shen and Yi-Dan Lin},
title = {Preoperative prognostic nutritional index shows no significant prognostic value for short-term outcomes of anastomosis-leakage patients after cancerous esophagectomy},
journal = {Annals of Palliative Medicine},
volume = {8},
number = {5},
year = {2019},
keywords = {},
abstract = {Background: The relationship between preoperative nutritional and immunological status and long-term outcome after cancerous esophagectomy has been investigated widely. Growing evidence also demonstrated preoperative nutritional and immunological status also affects short-term outcome after surgery for esophageal cancer. However, the relationship between preoperative nutritional and immunological status and short-term outcome of anastomosis-leakage patients after cancerous esophagectomy was scarce. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between preoperative prognostic nutritional index (PNI) and short- term outcome of anastomosis-leakage patients after surgery.
Methods: In this study, we retrospectively enrolled 90 patients who were confirmed to be esophageal cancer by preoperative biopsy or postoperative pathological review and also suffered postoperative anastomotic leakage from January 2014 to June 2017 at the Department of Thoracic Surgery, West China Hospital. Then we evaluated the association between PNI and short-term surgical outcome. The endpoints included postoperative mortality, postoperative hospital duration, postoperative intensive care unit (ICU) duration, hospitalization cost.
Results: The cut-off value of PNI was set at 49.83 in our study, patients with a preoperative PNI ≥49.83 were divided into high-PNI group, while those with a preoperative PNI },
issn = {2224-5839}, url = {https://apm.amegroups.org/article/view/32015}
}