Postoperative nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is correlated with malnutrition leading to an unpreferable clinical course for pancreatic cancer patients undergoing pancreaticoduodenectomy.
Hirohisa OkabeYo-Ichi YamashitaRisa InoueShotaro KinoshitaRumi ItoyamaToshihiko YusaYosuke NakaoTakanobu YamaoNaoki UmezakiMasayo TsukamotoYuki KitanoTatsunori MiyataKota ArimaHiromitsu HayashiKatsunori ImaiAkira ChikamotoHideo BabaPublished in: Surgery today (2019)
Post-PD NAFLD was associated with malnutrition in patients with PDAC, reducing their tolerance to gemcitabine-based adjuvant chemotherapy. Post-PD NAFLD needs to be emphasized and requires special nutritional intervention in patients with PDAC.