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 Perry

Published 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.

Keyphrases

cardiovascular events
risk factors
end stage renal disease
patients undergoing
thoracic surgery
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
chronic kidney disease
emergency department
type diabetes
robot assisted