Robot-assisted total gastrectomy for gastric cancer in a patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis receiving long-term tracheostomy invasive ventilation
AbstractAmyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease. Although affected patients may develop cancers, major surgical intervention has been hampered by its questionable overall benefit due to limited prognosis and risk of postoperative respiratory collapse. A recent study, however, showed that tracheostomy invasive ventilation (TIV) prolonged median survival to 11.3 years; thus, patients with ALS receiving TIV might benefit from major surgery. A 66-year-old man with ALS, who had received TIV and enteral tube feeding for 8 years, presented with bloody stool. The patient also had type 2 diabetes mellitus, stage 4 chronic kidney disease, abdominal aortic aneury sm, and anti-phospholipid syndrome, as well as multiple episodes of pneumonia and catheter-related urinary tract infection treated by antibiotics. Medical examination and esophagogastroduodenoscopy revealed a type 3 tumor in the middle part of the stomach. The patient’s preoperative diagnosis was gastric cancer (GC), MU, type3, Less-Post, T3(SS), N1, H0, P0, M0, cStage III. The estimated mortality rate was 30.5%, according to the Japanese National Clinical Database. The patient and his family were fully informed of the risk of surgery; the patient clearly requested curative surgery by eye mo vement. Thus, robot-assisted total gastrectomy (RATG) was performed. The tissues were extremely fragile and hemorrhagic. The surgical time was 7 h 0 min; intraoperative blood loss was 324 ml. Patholo...
Source: International Cancer Conference Journal - Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
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