Association of perioperative cholesterol depletion with anastomotic leak after esophagectomy for cancer: a retrospective study
Mingrui Liu, Simian He, Enwei Zhou, Binhui Ren · 2025
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Description
Mingrui Liu and co-authors link a drop in cholesterol around surgery to leaks after food pipe cancer surgery in a 2025 study. A leak at the surgical join is one of the worst problems after this operation. Poor nutrition raises risk, and nutrition scores also reflect stress and swelling in the body, so the team tested three such scores.
Records for more than seventeen hundred patients over four years were reviewed, and about one in twelve developed a leak. Changes in two nutrition scores did not differ between leak and non leak groups. Change in the third score did differ, and among its parts only cholesterol change stood out. The authors discuss cholesterol loss as a warning sign.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Mingrui Liu, Simian He, Enwei Zhou, Binhui Ren |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 29 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |