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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2000;18:293-300
© 2000 Elsevier Science NL
a Department of Cardio-thoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Liège, B35 Sart Tilman, 4000 Liège, Belgium
b Department of General Surgery, University Hospital of Liège, B35 Sart Tilman, 4000 Liège, Belgium
c Department of Biostatistics, University Hospital of Liège, B35 Sart Tilman, 4000 Liège, Belgium
Received 6 September 1999; received in revised form 5 June 2000; accepted 28 June 2000.
Corresponding author. Tel.: +32-4-366-7163; fax: +32-4-366-7164
e-mail: philippe.kolh{at}chu.ulg.ac.be
Objective: The aims of our study were to determine if using the colon as a digestive transplant after oesophagectomy for cancer was associated with increased postoperative complications, and to assess the impact of preoperative radiochemotherapy on postoperative hospital outcome. Methods: From January 1990 to December 1998, 130 patients underwent oesophageal resection for malignancy. There were 103 males and 27 females (age: 61.3±11.5 years). Indications were squamous cell carcinoma in 69 patients and adenocarcinoma in 61. Preoperatively 30 patients (eight in stage IIB, 18 in stage III, and four in stage IV) received radiochemotherapy. There were 84 subtotal oesophagectomies, with anastomosis in the neck in 44 patients and at the thoracic inlet in 40, and 46 distal oesophageal resections. Digestive continuity was restored with the stomach in 92 patients (age: 63.4±10.2 years) and the colon in 38 (age: 52.3±12.8 years). With the exception of age (P<0.0001), there was no significant preoperative difference between gastric and colonic groups. Results: Hospital mortality was 8.5% (11 patients), decreasing from 18.5% (before 1993) to 3.8% (since 1993). One patient (2.5%) died in the colonic graft group and ten (11%) in the gastric pull-up group (P=0.17). Postoperative complications occurred in 40 patients (31%), respectively, in ten (26%) and 30 (33%) patients after colonic and gastric transplants (P=0.48), and were pulmonary insufficiency or infection in 29 patients, anastomotic fistula in six, myocardial infarction in five, recurrent nerve palsy in four, renal insufficiency in three, and cerebrovascular accident in one. All fistulas occurred in the gastric pull-up group. The incidence of postoperative pulmonary complications was 70% (21/30 patients) in the subgroup who received preoperative radiochemotherapy, as compared to 11% (5/44 patients) in the subgroup of comparable staging, but without preoperative treatment (P<0.001). Conclusions: Colonic grafts are not associated with increased postoperative mortality or complications. Our results suggest that preoperative neoadjuvant treatment significantly increases postoperative pulmonary complications.
Key Words: Oesophagectomy • Cancer • Radiochemotherapy • Colonic transplant • Gastric pull-up • Transhiatal approach
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