Monitoring serum Albumin can help patients recover from gastrectomy

(Bentham Science Publishers) Our result suggests preoperative albumin level as an independent risk factor for PPCs in elderly gastric cancer (GC) patients after elective laparoscopic gastrectomy. We also suggest that those elderly hypoalbuminemic GC patients may benefit from more intensive perioperative care including perioperative nutritional status improvement.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news