Is preoperative protein-rich nutrition effective on postoperative outcome in non-small cell lung cancer surgery? A prospective randomized study.

CONCLUSIONS: Our study showed that preoperative nutrition is beneficial in decreasing the complications and chest tube removal time in non-small cell lung cancer patients that were applied anatomic resection with a reduction of 25 % in the postoperative albumin levels of non-malnourished patients who underwent resection. PMID: 26782276 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Hand Surgery - Category: Surgery Authors: Tags: J Cardiothorac Surg Source Type: research