The Preoperative Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index Predicts Postoperative Complications in Elderly Patients with Gastric Cancer Undergoing Gastrectomy
Conclusion: GNRI is useful in predicting postoperative complications of elderly patients with GC undergoing gastrectomy. Preoperative GNRI has merit as a gauge of postoperative complications in the extra-surgical field, especially pneumonia. There was no relationship between preoperative GNRI and surgical field complications in this setting.
Source: In Vivo - Category: Research Authors: KUSHIYAMA, S., SAKURAI, K., KUBO, N., TAMAMORI, Y., NISHII, T., TACHIMORI, A., INOUE, T., MAEDA, K. Tags: Clinical Studies Source Type: research
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