Treatment of a staple-line leak after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy using an esophagoduodenal Niti-S Mega-stent.

A 56-year-old female with class 3 obesity, was previously submitted to laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) two weeks before current admission. The patient was admitted due to fever, abdominal pain and vomiting. CT revealed a 13.

Development of a preoperative risk score on admission in surgical intermediate care unit in gastrointestinal cancer surgery.

Background: Gastrointestinal cancer surgery continues to be a significant cause of postoperative complications and mortality in high-risk patients. It is crucial to identify these patients. Our study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of specific perioperative risk assessment tools to predict postoperative complications, identifying the most informative variables and combining them to test their prediction ability as a new score.

The impact of negative lymph nodes in the survival outcomes of pN+ patients following radical gastrectomy: the inverse lymph node ratio as a better score to study negative lymph nodes.

The impact of negative lymph nodes (LNs) on survival of pN+ patients has been recognized. The weight of negative LNs in an inverse lymph node ratio (nR) should be related to its prognostic impact. Five hundred and two consecutive gastric cancer patients, who underwent radical gastrectomy, were included.

Root causes and outcomes of postoperative pulmonary complications after abdominal surgery: a retrospective observational cohort study.

Background: Postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs) contribute significantly to overall postoperative morbidity and mortality. In abdominal surgery, PPCs remain frequent. The study aimed to analyze the profile and outcomes of PPCs in patients submitted to abdominal surgery and admitted in a Portuguese polyvalent intensive care unit.

[Esophageal cancer: surgical strategies].

Introduction: Oesophagectomy for cancer is associated to a significant morbidity and mortality. The superiority of transthoracic vs transhiatal is still a matter of controversy. The aim of this paper is to discuss the results of a series of patients submitted to either a transthoracic or a transhiatal according to the anatomic location regarding the carina.