Factors Affecting Blood Loss During Thoracoscopic Esophagectomy for Esophageal Carcinoma.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Major intraoperative hemorrhage reportedly predicts unfavorable survival outcomes following surgical resection for esophageal carcinoma (EC). However, the factors predicting the amount of blood lost during thoracoscopic esophagectomy have yet to be sufficiently studied. We sought to identify risk factors for excessive blood loss during video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) for EC.

Methods

Using simple and multiple linear regression models, we performed retrospective analyses of the associations between clinicopathological/surgical factors and estimated hemorrhagic volume in 168 consecutive patients who underwent VATS-type esophagectomy for EC.

Results

The median blood loss amount was 225 mL (interquartile range, 126-380 mL). Abdominal laparotomy (p<0.

SUBMITTER: Urabe M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8646075 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature