Risk Factors for Operative Complications in Elderly Patients During Laparoscopy-Assisted Gastrectomy
In: Journal of the American College of Surgeons, Jg. 208 (2009), Heft 2, S. 186-192
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BACKGROUND: We evaluated the feasibility of laparoscopy-assisted gastrectomy in elderly patients with gastric cancer. STUDY DESIGN: We performed a retrospective analysis of 632 patients who underwent laparoscopy-assisted gastrectomy from May 2003 to December 2007 at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital. Postoperative complication rates were compared between patients older and younger than 70 years of age. RESULTS: Of the 632 patients, 515 (81.5%) were younger than 70 years and 117 (18.5%) were aged 70 years or older. Significant differences in the prevalence of cardiovascular disease and hypertension were observed in patients older than 70 years (p < 0.05). Although the overall complication rates of the patients younger and older than 70 years were 12.6% and 17.9%, respectively, there was no statistically significant difference between groups (p = 0.12). Multiple logistic regression analysis revealed that comorbidities with hypertension or with liver cirrhosis were the only variables that correlated independently with postoperative complications. CONCLUSIONS: Complications after laparoscopy-assisted gastrectomy for patients older than 70 years of age with gastric cancer were similar to those of younger patients. But a careful approach is required when patients older than 70 years of age have hypertension or liver cirrhosis.
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Risk Factors for Operative Complications in Elderly Patients During Laparoscopy-Assisted Gastrectomy
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | HWANG, Sun-Hwi ; DO JOONG, PARK ; YE SEOB, JEE ; KIM, Hyung-Ho ; LEE, Hyuk-Joon ; YANG, Han-Kwang ; KUHN UK, LEE |
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Zeitschrift: | Journal of the American College of Surgeons, Jg. 208 (2009), Heft 2, S. 186-192 |
Veröffentlichung: | New York, NY: Elsevier, 2009 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
Umfang: | print, 31 ref |
ISSN: | 1072-7515 (print) |
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