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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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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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Clinical significance of sarcopenic dysphagia for patients with esophageal cancer undergoing esophagectomy: A review

Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, 2022
The relationships among esophagectomy for esophageal cancer, dysphagia, and sarcopenia are still unclear. We considered appropriate interventions for patients with resectable esophageal cancer for the purpose of reducing postoperative dysphagia and ...
Junya Oguma, Soji Ozawa, Koshiro Ishiyama, Hiroyuki Daiko   +3 more
doaj   +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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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
doaj   +1 more source

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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Immune-enhancing formulas for patients with cancer undergoing esophagectomy: Systematic review protocol [PDF]

, 2017
In the paper by Astrid Naranjo et al, “Immune-Enhancing Formulas for Patients With Cancer Undergoing Esophagectomy: Systematic Review Protocol” (JMIR Res Protoc 2017;6(11):e214), mistakes were made when listing the authors’ degrees.
Isenring, Elizabeth, Naranjo, Astrid, Teleni, Laisa   +2 more
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Surgical approach and the impact of epidural analgesia on survival after esophagectomy for cancer: A population-based retrospective cohort study.

PLoS ONE, 2019
BackgroundEsophagectomy for esophageal cancer carries high morbidity and mortality, particularly in older patients. Transthoracic esophagectomy allows formal lymphadenectomy, but leads to greater perioperative morbidity and pain than transhiatal ...
Kenneth C Cummings Iii, Tzuyung Doug Kou, Amitabh Chak, Mark D Schluchter, Seunghee Margevicius, Gregory S Cooper, Neal J Meropol, Yaron Perry, Philip A Linden, Linda C Cummings   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Robot-assisted esophagectomy may improve perioperative outcome in patients with esophageal cancer – a single-center experience

Frontiers in Oncology, 2022
BackgroundAlthough the introduction of minimally invasive surgical techniques has improved surgical outcomes in recent decades, esophagectomy for esophageal cancer is still associated with severe complications and a high mortality rate.
Johanna Betzler, Johanna Betzler, Johanna Betzler, Lea Elfinger, Sylvia Büttner, Christel Weiß, Nuh Rahbari, Alexander Betzler, Christoph Reißfelder, Christoph Reißfelder, Mirko Otto, Susanne Blank, Susanne Blank, Susanne Blank, Sebastian Schölch, Sebastian Schölch, Sebastian Schölch   +16 more
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The esophagogastric junctional adenocarcinoma an increasing disease [PDF]

, 2017
Identifying and defining the esophagogastric junctional adenocarcinoma (EGJA) as an independent disease apart from gastric cancer (GC) and esophagus cancer (EG) it has always been a difficult issue entailing doubts about the appropriate therapeutic ...
Andreetti, Claudio, Ibrahim, Mohsen, Menna, Cecilia, Pastina, Monica   +3 more
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