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Open Access 01-12-2019 | Billroth I Resection | Research article

Influence of age on postoperative complications especially pneumonia after gastrectomy for gastric cancer

Authors: Chikashi Shibata, Hitoshi Ogawa, Toru Nakano, Kaori Koyama, Kuniharu Yamamoto, Munenori Nagao, Daisuke Takeyama, Kazuhiro Takami, Akihiro Yasumoto, Tomohiko Sase, Shun-ichi Kimura, Kentaro Sawada, Yu Katayose

Published in: BMC Surgery | Issue 1/2019

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Abstract

Background

The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of patients’ age on postoperative morbidities including pneumonia.

Methods

We reviewed the clinical records of 211 patients with stages I – III gastric cancer undergoing curative distal gastrectomy (DG) or total gastrectomy (TG). Patients were classified into an elderly (≧80 y.o.) or a control (< 80 y.o.) group. We compared patient characteristics (sex ratio, disease stage, degree of lymph node dissection, number of retrieved lymph nodes, and type of reconstruction) and early postoperative outcomes (operation time, intra-operative blood loss, and postoperative morbidity including pneumonia, and mortality) between the two groups separately in DG and TG.

Results

There were 134 and 77 patients who underwent DG and TG, respectively. The numbers of patients in the elderly and control groups were 25 and 109 in DG and 12 and 65 in TG. The percentage of female patients in the elderly group was greater than that in the control group in both DG and TG. The extent of lymph node dissection did not differ between two groups in TG; in contrast in DG, the rate of a D1 dissection was greater in the elderly group than in the control group. There were no differences between the two groups in distribution of disease stage, number of retrieved lymph nodes, operation time, and blood loss in DG and in TG. Overall postoperative morbidity did not differ between two groups after DG and after TG. The rate of infectious complications in the elderly group was not different from that in the control group after DG and after TG. The incidence of pneumonia was more frequent in the elderly group compared to the control group after DG (8% vs. 1%, P < 0.05) but not after TG (17% vs. 5%). When patients were compared between the elderly and the control groups regardless of type of gastrectomy, the incidence of pneumonia in the elderly group (4/37 (11%)) was greater than that in the control group (4/174 (2%), P < 0.05).

Conclusions

These results suggest that pneumonia is increased in patients older than 80 years after DG.
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Metadata
Title
Influence of age on postoperative complications especially pneumonia after gastrectomy for gastric cancer
Authors
Chikashi Shibata
Hitoshi Ogawa
Toru Nakano
Kaori Koyama
Kuniharu Yamamoto
Munenori Nagao
Daisuke Takeyama
Kazuhiro Takami
Akihiro Yasumoto
Tomohiko Sase
Shun-ichi Kimura
Kentaro Sawada
Yu Katayose
Publication date
01-12-2019
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
BMC Surgery / Issue 1/2019
Electronic ISSN: 1471-2482
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12893-019-0573-x

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