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Early Stage Results after Oesophageal Resection for Malignancy - Colon Interposition Vs. Gastric Pull-Up
Kolh, Philippe; Honore, Pierre; Degauque, C. et al.
2000In European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, 18 (3), p. 293-300
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Abstract :
[en] OBJECTIVE: The aims of our study were to determine if using the colon as a digestive transplant after oesophagectomy for cancer was associated with increased postoperative complications, and to assess the impact of preoperative radiochemotherapy on postoperative hospital outcome. METHODS: From January 1990 to December 1998, 130 patients underwent oesophageal resection for malignancy. There were 103 males and 27 females (age: 61.3+/-11.5 years). Indications were squamous cell carcinoma in 69 patients and adenocarcinoma in 61. Preoperatively 30 patients (eight in stage IIB, 18 in stage III, and four in stage IV) received radiochemotherapy. There were 84 subtotal oesophagectomies, with anastomosis in the neck in 44 patients and at the thoracic inlet in 40, and 46 distal oesophageal resections. Digestive continuity was restored with the stomach in 92 patients (age: 63.4+/-10.2 years) and the colon in 38 (age: 52.3+/-12.8 years). With the exception of age (P<0.0001), there was no significant preoperative difference between gastric and colonic groups. RESULTS: Hospital mortality was 8.5% (11 patients), decreasing from 18.5% (before 1993) to 3.8% (since 1993). One patient (2.5%) died in the colonic graft group and ten (11%) in the gastric pull-up group (P=0.17). Postoperative complications occurred in 40 patients (31%), respectively, in ten (26%) and 30 (33%) patients after colonic and gastric transplants (P=0.48), and were pulmonary insufficiency or infection in 29 patients, anastomotic fistula in six, myocardial infarction in five, recurrent nerve palsy in four, renal insufficiency in three, and cerebrovascular accident in one. All fistulas occurred in the gastric pull-up group. The incidence of postoperative pulmonary complications was 70% (21/30 patients) in the subgroup who received preoperative radiochemotherapy, as compared to 11% (5/44 patients) in the subgroup of comparable staging, but without preoperative treatment (P<0.001). CONCLUSIONS: Colonic grafts are not associated with increased postoperative mortality or complications. Our results suggest that preoperative neoadjuvant treatment significantly increases postoperative pulmonary complications.
Disciplines :
Cardiovascular & respiratory systems
Author, co-author :
Kolh, Philippe  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences biomédicales et précliniques > Service de biochimie et de physiologie humaines, normale et pathologique
Honore, Pierre ;  Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège - CHU > Chirurgie abdominale- endocrinienne et de transplantation
Degauque, C.
Gielen, Jean-Louis ;  Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège - CHU > Chirurgie maxillo-faciale et plastique
Gérard, Paul ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de mathématique > Statistique (aspects expérimentaux)
Comhair, Nicole ;  Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège - CHU > Administration des patients - Expédition
Language :
English
Title :
Early Stage Results after Oesophageal Resection for Malignancy - Colon Interposition Vs. Gastric Pull-Up
Publication date :
September 2000
Journal title :
European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
ISSN :
1010-7940
eISSN :
1873-734X
Publisher :
Elsevier, Netherlands
Volume :
18
Issue :
3
Pages :
293-300
Peer reviewed :
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