Mortality After Esophagectomy: Analysis of Individual Complications and Their Association with Mortality.
Philip A LindenChristopher W ToweThomas J WatsonDonald E LowStephen D CassiviMaria Grau-SepulvedaStephanie G WorrellYaron PerryPublished in: Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (2019)
In the Society of Thoracic Surgery database, 64% of patients suffer postoperative events and 3.3% die following esophagectomy. The independent association of certain postoperative events with mortality is an objective method of terming a complication "major" and may aid efforts to reduce mortality.