@article{Mansouri_Zemni_Ayadi_Ben Safta_Ben Dhiab_Mahjoub_Achouri_Rahal_2020, title={Determinants of surgical morbidity in gastric cancer: experience of a single center and literature review}, volume={2}, url={https://www.journalofgastricsurgery.com/index.php/JGS/article/view/71}, DOI={10.36159/jgs.v2i4.71}, abstractNote={<p><strong>Background:</strong><br>This study aimed to evaluate the severity of intraoperative and post-operative complications of gastric cancer surgery and to investigate the predictive factors correlated to surgical morbidity.<br><strong>Methods:</strong><br>We included 145 patients operated for gastric cancer. We investigated the risk factors associated with complications, length of hospital stay, operative time, and intraoperative blood transfusion (BT). Significant risk factors were analyzed by multiple logistic regression analysis.<br><strong>Results:</strong><br>Postoperative complications occurred in 32 patients (22.1 %) and the rate of major complications was 7.6%. The rate of anastomotic fistula was 6.9% and was correlated to diabetes, tumor size, operative time, surgical margin, and extended lymphadenectomy. The mean risk factors for postoperative morbidity were the presence of comorbidities and ASA score (p = 0.021), intraoperative BT (p = 0.045) and prolonged operative time (p = 0.055).<br><strong>Conclusion:</strong><br>Surgical morbidity of gastric cancer is correlated to the extent of resection as well as the clinical and histological characteristics.</p>}, number={4}, journal={Journal of Gastric Surgery}, author={Mansouri, Houyem and Zemni, Ines and Ayadi, Mohamed Ali and Ben Safta, Ines and Ben Dhiab, Tarek and Mahjoub, Najet and Achouri, Leila and Rahal, Khaled}, year={2020}, month={Dec.}, pages={106–117} }