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Esophagectomy in octogenarians: is it at a cost?

Heliyon, 2022
Surgical intervention in the geriatric population has a higher risk of perioperative morbidity and mortality due to frailty, comorbidities, and lack of compensatory physiologic reserve. The literature on esophagectomy in octogenarians is limited and there is concern about elderly patients being with-held surgery. The purpose of this study is to analyze
Sujata Ojha, Muhammad B. Darwish, Annie L. Benzie, Shankar Logarajah, Patrick J. McLaren, Houssam Osman, Edward Cho, John Jay, D. Rohan Jeyarajah   +8 more
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Immunonutrition before esophagectomy: Impact on immune surveillance mechanisms [PDF]

, 2017
Preoperative oral immunonutrition was demonstrated to improve immune response and to decrease the infection rate in patients with cancer. This study aimed to assess how immunonutrition could influence the immune cell response in the mucosal ...
Agostini, Marco, Alfieri, Rita, Cagol, Matteo, Castagliuolo, Ignazio, Castoro, Carlo, Cavallin, Francesco, Fassan, Matteo, Kotsafti, Andromachi, Nardi, Teresa, Pinto, Eleonora, Rugge, Massimo, Scarpa, Marco, Scarpa, Melania   +12 more
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The order of surgery and chemotherapy matters: Multimodality therapy and stage‐specific differences in survival in gastric cancer

Journal of Surgical Oncology, Volume 127, Issue 1, Page 56-65, January 2023., 2023
Abstract Background and Objectives Multimodality treatment improves survival for gastric cancer (GC). However, the effect of treatment sequence by stage remains unclear. We aim to compare outcomes between patients receiving neoadjuvant(neoadj) and adjuvant chemotherapy (adj).
Vicente Ramos‐Santillan, Patricia Friedmann, Mariam Eskander, Jennifer Chuy, Michael Parides, Haejin In   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparison of pyloromyotomy, pyloric buginage, and intact pylorus on gastric drainage in gastric pull-up surgery after esophagectomy

Journal of Research in Medical Sciences, 2016
Background: There are controversies regarding the usefulness of the pyloric drainage methods after esophagectomy as well as differences among various pyloric drainage techniques.
Gholamreza Mohajeri, Seyed Abbas Tabatabaei, Seyed Mozafar Hashemi, Hamidreza Hemmati   +3 more
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Recurrence following anastomotic leakage after surgery for carcinoma of the distal esophagus and gastroesophageal junction. a systematic review [PDF]

, 2019
BACKGROUND: Esophageal cancer is the ninth most common cancer. The only potentially curative treatment is surgical resection, which unfortunately is still associated with major complications, the most important being anastomotic leakage, currently with ...
Antolino, Laura, Aurello, Paolo, Berardi, Giammauro, Cinquepalmi, Matteo, D'Angelo, Francesco, GIOVANNI RAMACCIATO, And, Moschetta, Giovanni, Nigri, Giuseppe, Valabrega, Stefano   +8 more
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The impact of race/ethnicity on pancreaticoduodenectomy outcomes for pancreatic cancer

Journal of Surgical Oncology, Volume 127, Issue 1, Page 99-108, January 2023., 2023
Abstract Purpose To investigate the impact of race/ethnicity on surgical outcomes following pancreaticoduodenectomy for pancreatic cancer. Methods A retrospective review of patients undergoing pancreaticoduodenectomy for adenocarcinoma in the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) database from 2014 to 2019.
Yahya Alwatari, Catalina M. Mosquera, Jad Khoraki, Salem Rustom, Natalie Wall, Athanasios E. Sevdalis, Weston Stover, Jose G. Trevino, Brian Kaplan   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prehabilitation for esophagectomy

Journal of Thoracic Disease, 2019
Esophagectomy remains the mainstay treatment of esophageal cancer (EC). Combined with neoadjuvant therapies, the management of EC has deleterious effects on body composition, functional capacity and psychological well-being. Preoperative patient optimisation known as prehabilitation is a novel intervention aimed at reducing morbidity and mortality ...
Emre Doganay, K Moorthy
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Robotic esophagectomy [PDF]

Journal of Visualized Surgery, 2016
Robotic esophagectomy is an increasingly used modality. Patients who are candidates for traditional, open esophagectomy are typically also candidates for robotic esophagectomy. Knowledge of and training on the robotic platform is critical for success. Patient and port positioning is described. Either a hand-sewn or stapled intrathoracic anastomosis may
Brett, Broussard, John, Evans, Benjamin, Wei, Robert, Cerfolio   +3 more
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Esophageal Cancer Initially Thought to be Accompanied by a Solitary Metastasis to an Intrathoracic Paraaortic Lymph Node [PDF]

, 2012
Esophageal cancers usually exhibit lymph-node metastases. Although a solitary lymph-node metastasis is occasionally found, the involvement of an intrathoracic paraaortic node is rare.
Akase, Takayoshi, Hase, Kazuo, Horio, Takuya, Maehara, Tadaaki, Ogata, Sho, Takahata, Risa, Tsujimoto, Hironori, Yaguchi, Yoshihisa   +7 more
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Novel Transgastric Endoluminal Segmental Esophagectomy and Primary Anastomosis Technique: A Hybrid Transgastric Thoracoscopic Esophagectomy for the Treatment of High Grade Dysplasia and Early Esophageal Cancer in a Porcine Ex vivo Model

Frontiers in Surgery, 2021
Multiple modalities are currently employed in the treatment of high grade dysplasia and early esophageal carcinoma. While they are the subject of ongoing investigation, surgery remains the definitive modality for oncological resection.
Anton Kvasha, Anton Kvasha, Muhammad Khalifa, Muhammad Khalifa, Seema Biswas, Moaad Farraj, Moaad Farraj, Zakhar Bramnik, Zakhar Bramnik, Igor Waksman, Igor Waksman   +10 more
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