External validation of the Ferguson pulmonary risk score for predicting major pulmonary complications after oesophagectomy†.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Pulmonary complications remain a frequent cause of morbidity in patients undergoing oesophagectomy. Risk screening tools assist in patient stratification. Ferguson proposed a risk score system to predict major pulmonary complications after oesophagectomy. Our objective was to externally validate this risk score system.

Methods

We analysed our institutional database for patients undergoing oesophagectomy for cancer from August 2009 to December 2012. We analysed patients who had complete documentation of variables used in the Ferguson risk score calculation: forced expiratory volume in the 1 s, diffusion capacity of the lung for carbon monoxide, performance status and age. One hundred and thirty-six patients qualified for analysis in the validation study. Outcome va

SUBMITTER: Reinersman JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4701018 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature