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ABSTRACT: Purpose
There is a lack of prospective studies evaluating the effects of body composition on postoperative complications after gastrectomy in a Western population with predominantly advanced gastric cancer.Methods
This is a prospective side study of the LOGICA trial, a multicenter randomized trial on laparoscopic versus open gastrectomy for gastric cancer. Trial patients who received preoperative chemotherapy followed by gastrectomy with an available preoperative restaging abdominal computed tomography (CT) scan were included. The CT scan was used to calculate the mass (M) and radiation attenuation (RA) of skeletal muscle (SM), visceral adipose tissue (VAT), and subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT). These variables were expressed as Z-scores, depicting how many standard deviations each patient's CT value differs from the sex-specific study sample mean. Primary outcome was the association of each Z-score with the occurrence of a major postoperative complication (Clavien-Dindo grade ≥ 3b).Results
From 2015 to 2018, a total of 112 patients were included. A major postoperative complication occurred in 9 patients (8%). A high SM-M Z-score was associated with a lower risk of major postoperative complications (RR 0.47, 95% CI 0.28-0.78, p = 0.004). Furthermore, high VAT-RA Z-scores and SAT-RA Z-scores were associated with a higher risk of major postoperative complications (RR 2.82, 95% CI 1.52-5.23, p = 0.001 and RR 1.95, 95% CI 1.14-3.34, p = 0.015, respectively). VAT-M, SAT-M, and SM-RA Z-scores showed no significant associations.Conclusion
Preoperative low skeletal muscle mass and high visceral and subcutaneous adipose tissue radiation attenuation (indicating fat depleted of triglycerides) were associated with a higher risk of developing a major postoperative complication in patients treated with preoperative chemotherapy followed by gastrectomy.
SUBMITTER: Tweed TTT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9296433 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tweed Thaís T T TTT van der Veen Arjen A Tummers Stan S van Dijk David P J DPJ Luyer Misha D P MDP Ruurda Jelle P JP van Hillegersberg Richard R Stoot Jan H M B JHMB Tegels Juul J W JJW Hulsewe Karel W E KWE Brenkman Hylke J F HJF Seesing Maarten F J MFJ Nieuwenhuijzen Grard A P GAP Ponten Jeroen E H JEH Wijnhoven Bas P L BPL Lagarde Sjoerd M SM de Steur Wobbe O WO Hartgrink Henk H HH Kouwenhoven Ewout A EA van Det Marc J MJ Wassenaar Eelco B EB van der Zaag Edwin S ES Draaisma Werner A WA Broeders Ivo A M J IAMJ Gisbertz Suzanne S SS van Berge Henegouwen Mark I MI van Laarhoven Hanneke W M HWM
Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract 20220429 7
<h4>Purpose</h4>There is a lack of prospective studies evaluating the effects of body composition on postoperative complications after gastrectomy in a Western population with predominantly advanced gastric cancer.<h4>Methods</h4>This is a prospective side study of the LOGICA trial, a multicenter randomized trial on laparoscopic versus open gastrectomy for gastric cancer. Trial patients who received preoperative chemotherapy followed by gastrectomy with an available preoperative restaging abdomi ...[more]