Intensified outpatient nutrition management improves body weight and skeletal muscle loss after esophageal cancer surgery: a single-center, retrospective, single-arm clinical study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The progression of malnutrition and sarcopenia after esophagectomy for esophageal cancer negatively influences long-term prognosis. To improve nutritional status after esophagectomy, we introduced an intensified nutrition management (iNM) protocol, in which nutritional counselling by dietitians was provided more frequently. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of iNM compared with the conventional NM (cNM).

Methods

We included 126 patients who underwent esophagectomy before and after NM revision, and compared nutritional status and changes in body composition after esophagectomy between the cNM and iNM groups. Nutritional parameters were assessed, and we also calculated skeletal muscle index (SMI), skeletal muscle density (SMD), and visceral fat area

SUBMITTER: Takahashi N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11532320 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature