Postoperative pneumonia causes the loss of skeletal muscle volume and poor prognosis in patients undergoing esophagectomy for esophageal cancer.
Seiichiro FujishimaHironori TsujimotoKen NagataHidekazu SugasawaShinsuke NomuraNozomi ItoManabu HaradaTakao SugiharaYusuke IshibashiKeita KouzuHiroshi ShinmotoYoji KishiHideki UenoPublished in: General thoracic and cardiovascular surgery (2020)
Postoperative pneumonia was associated with the loss of skeletal muscle volume and asymptomatic pneumonia within 6 months of surgery as well as poorer overall survival.
Keyphrases
- skeletal muscle
- patients undergoing
- poor prognosis
- long non coding rna
- insulin resistance
- minimally invasive
- respiratory failure
- community acquired pneumonia
- coronary artery bypass
- type diabetes
- adipose tissue
- metabolic syndrome
- intensive care unit
- free survival
- coronary artery disease
- extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- mechanical ventilation