Risk Factors and Cancer Recurrence Associated with Postoperative Complications After Thoracoscopic Lobectomy for Clinical Stage I Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

Overview

Journal Thorac Cancer

Specialties Oncology
Pulmonary Medicine

Date 2019 Aug 23

PMID 31436042

Citations 15

Authors

Takeo Nakada

Yuki Noda

Daiki Kato

Takamasa Shibasaki

Shohei Mori

Hisatoshi Asano

Hideki Matsudaira

Jun Hirano

Makoto Odaka

Takashi Ohtsuka

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Abstract

Background: Minimally invasive thoracoscopic lobectomy is the recommended surgery for clinical stage I non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The purpose of this study was to identify the risk factors, including sarcopenia, for postoperative complications in patients undergoing a complete single-lobe thoracoscopic lobectomy for clinical stage I NSCLC, as well as the impact of complications on disease-free survival.

Methods: We retrospectively investigated 173 patients with pathologically-diagnosed NSCLC who underwent curative thoracoscopic lobectomies between April 2013 and March 2018. Sarcopenia was assessed using the psoas muscle index calculated from preoperative computed tomography images at the third lumbar vertebral level.

Results: Complications developed in 38 (22%) patients, including 21 with prolonged air leak. In univariate analysis, the significant risk factors for complications were advanced age, male sex, higher Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) score, lower cholinesterase, lower albumin, higher creatinine level, pleural adhesion, operative time ≥ five hours, nonadenocarcinoma cancer, and larger tumor size. Multivariate analysis showed that age ≥ 75 years (P = 0.002) and pleural adhesion (P = 0.026) were significant independent risk factors for complications. Compared with the patient group without complications, postoperative complications were independently associated with shorter disease-free survival (P = 0.01).

Conclusions: Advanced age and pleural adhesion were independent risk factors for complications after complete single-lobe thoracoscopic lobectomies for clinical stage I NSCLC, and postoperative complications were statistically associated with poor prognosis. Surgical teams should ensure an experienced surgeon leads the operation for patients at higher risk to avoid prolonged postoperative hospitalization and a possible poor prognosis.

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