Clinical Significance of Pretreatment Red Blood Cell Distribution Width as a Predictive Marker for Postoperative Morbidity After Esophagectomy for Esophageal Cancer: A Retrospective Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Clinical significance of red blood cell distribution (RDW) as a predictive marker for the incidence of postoperative morbidity after esophagectomy for esophageal cancer has not been established.

Methods

This study included 634 consecutive patients who underwent three-incisional esophagectomy with lymphadenectomy for esophageal cancer between April 2005 and November 2020. Correlation between pretreatment RDW and patient background, cancer background, and short-term outcome after esophagectomy were retrospectively investigated.

Results

Eighty patients (12.6%) had a high pretreatment RDW (> 14.2), which correlated with malnutrition estimated by body mass index, hemoglobin, total lymphocyte count, albumin, and total cholesterol. High pretreatment RDW was an ind

SUBMITTER: Yoshida N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8407934 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature