Practical Geriatrics ›› 2024, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (12): 1255-1259.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1003-9198.2024.12.015

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Relationship between preoperative sarcopenia and postoperative anastomotic leakage in elderly patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

LU Peng, ZHANG Mingzhi, XU Keping, ZHANG Shaohong, WANG Weimin, TIAN Wenze   

  1. Department of Geriatric Medicine(LU Peng, ZHANG Shaohong, WANG Weimin); Department of Thoracic Surgery(ZHANG Mingzhi, XU Keping, TIAN Wenze), the Affiliated Huaian No.1 People’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Huai’an 223300, China
  • Received:2023-12-21 Online:2024-12-20 Published:2024-12-19
  • Contact: TIAN Wenze, Email: hayytwz@njmu.edu.cn

Abstract: Objective To explore the relationship between preoperative sarcopenia and postoperative anastomotic leakage in the elderly patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma undergoing minimally invasive radical surgery for esophageal cancer. Methods A retrospective analysis was conducted on the clinical data of 953 elderly patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma who underwent minimally invasive thoracolaparoscopy combined with radical esophagectomy in the Affiliated Huai’an No.1 People’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University from January 2020 to December 2022. The incidence of sarcopenia and related clinical and pathological indicators of the patients were recorded, and the correlation between the above indicators and the incidence of postoperative anastomotic leakage was analyzed. Results The incidence rate of postoperative anastomotic leakage in the elderly patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma undergoing minimally invasive radical esophagectomy was 4.83%(46/953). Compared with the non-anastomotic leakage group, the anastomotic leakage group had higher proportion of preoperative sarcopenia, postoperative pneumonia and surgery time <4 hours (P<0.01). Multivariate Logistic analysis showed that preoperative sarcopenia, postoperative pneumonia and surgery time <4 hours were risk factors for postoperative anastomotic leakage in the patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma undergoing minimally invasive esophageal cancer radical surgery. Conclusions Preoperative sarcopenia is a high-risk factor for postoperative anastomotic leakage in the elderly patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma undergoing minimally invasive radical esophagectomy, and can be used as a key indicator for early preoperative evaluation.

Key words: esophageal cancer, sarcopenia, anastomotic leakage, psoas muscle index, aged

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