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Long-term Postoperative Nutritional Status Affects Prognosis Even After Infectious Complications in Gastric Cancer

JUN KIUCHI, SHUHEI KOMATSU, TOSHIYUKI KOSUGA, TAKESHI KUBOTA, KAZUMA OKAMOTO, HIROTAKA KONISHI, ATSUSHI SHIOZAKI, HITOSHI FUJIWARA, DAISUKE ICHIKAWA and EIGO OTSUJI
Anticancer Research May 2018, 38 (5) 3133-3138;
JUN KIUCHI
1Division of Digestive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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1Division of Digestive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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TOSHIYUKI KOSUGA
1Division of Digestive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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TAKESHI KUBOTA
1Division of Digestive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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KAZUMA OKAMOTO
1Division of Digestive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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HIROTAKA KONISHI
1Division of Digestive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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ATSUSHI SHIOZAKI
1Division of Digestive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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HITOSHI FUJIWARA
1Division of Digestive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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DAISUKE ICHIKAWA
2Department of Digestive Surgery, Yamanashi University, Chuo, Japan
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Abstract

Aim: This study was designed to investigate the clinical impact of postoperative serum albumin level on severe postoperative complications (SPCs) and prognosis. Materials and Methods: Data for a total of 728 consecutive patients who underwent curative gastrectomy for gastric cancer between 2004 and 2013 were retrospectively analyzed. From these patients, a propensity score-matched analysis was performed based on 14 clinicopathological and surgical factors. Results: Short-term decrease in postoperative serum albumin level was not associated with the occurrence of SPCs. Regarding long-term decrease in serum albumin level, a decrease of ≥0.5 g/dl at 3 months did not affect the long-term survival of patients without SPCs, but was related to a significantly poorer prognosis in patients with SPCs. By multivariate analysis, long-term decrease of serum albumin level was an independent prognostic factor in patients with SPCs. Conclusion: Long-term postoperative nutritional status as shown by a low level of albumin was related to prognosis in patients with SPCs.

  • Serum albumin decrease
  • albumin loss
  • prognosis
  • nutritional status
  • gastric cancer
  • postoperative complications

Gastric cancer is one of the most common causes of death from cancer worldwide (1). Recent advances in diagnostic techniques have contributed to the earlier detection of gastric cancer, and less invasive endoscopic or surgical techniques, standardized surgical procedures, perioperative management techniques, and effective novel agents for chemotherapy have drastically reduced the morbidity and mortality rates of patients with gastric cancer (2-4). However, postoperative complications and tumor recurrence after gastrectomy occur in some patients even today; therefore, further improvement of treatment in patients with gastric cancer is required.

A lower preoperative nutritional status has been reported to be associated with the occurrence of postoperative complications and a long-term poorer prognosis (5-7). The preoperative serum albumin level reflects the nutritional status and is used as a pivotal factor in the Glasgow Prognostic Score, which can predict the prognosis of patients with cancer (8-10). However, to our knowledge, there have been no reports about whether the postoperative serum albumin level influences the occurrence of postoperative complications and long-term outcomes.

In this study, the association between a decrease in perioperative serum albumin level and the occurrence of postoperative complications was evaluated and the long-term prognostic impact of postoperative serum albumin level at 3 months after surgery may investigated in patients with gastric cancer. Our results provide further evidence that the postoperative serum albumin level might be an indicator for prognosis and that nutritional maintenance may contribute to improving prognosis in patients with gastric cancer.

Materials and Methods

Patients and operative procedures. This study was institutionally and comprehensively in accordance with ethical standards of the Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine and with the Helsinki Declaration. The patients provided their informed written consent prior to study enrolment. We retrospectively analyzed data for 728 consecutive patients who underwent curative gastrectomy with lymphadenectomy for gastric cancer at the Division of Digestive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine between 2004 and 2013. Patients with stage IV cancer were excluded from this study. Based on the preoperative diagnosis using gastric endoscopy and computed tomographic scans, total or distal gastrectomy with sufficient lymphadenectomy was performed, mainly according to the Japanese guidelines for the treatment of gastric cancer (11). Patients with clinical T1 and N0 tumors underwent D1 or D1 with lymphadenectomy, and patients with clinical T2 or more advanced tumors and those with N1 or more advanced tumors underwent either D2 or D2 with lymphadenectomy. In the D2 dissection, the perigastric lymph nodes and all second-tier lymph nodes were completely retrieved. Depending on the location of the tumor, additional lymphadenectomy was performed along the distal side of the splenic artery (no.11d) and at the splenic hilum (no.10), together with splenectomy or splenectomy with distal pancreatectomy (11, 12).

Three major infectious complications were defined as severe postoperative complications (SPCs): anastomotic leakage, pancreatic fistula, and intra-abdominal abscess, all of which are classified as being more than grade II in the Clavien-Dindo classification (13). In the present study, the impact of the serum albumin decrease following gastrectomy for gastric cancer on the occurrence of SPCs and prognosis was evaluated. Considering the selection bias from potential confounders, a propensity score-matched analysis was carried out to compare the outcomes between patients with and without SPCs. The variables for calculating the propensity score were sex, age at surgery, presence of emaciation or obesity, presence of anemia, preoperative serum albumin level, extent of lymphadenectomy, surgical approach, surgical form, pathological T factor, pathological N factor, pathological tumor stage by TNM classification (12), presence of concurrent diabetes mellitus, and presence of concurrent hepatic disease.

In this study, firstly the association between serum albumin decrease and the occurrence of severe postoperative infectious complications was investigated. Next, the decrease in serum albumin level and the prognostic impact of a prolonged low serum albumin level was compared between patients with and without SPCs. In this study, a decrease of 0.5 g/dl or greater at postoperative day 90 was used as a cut-off for a prolonged low serum albumin level.

Statistical analysis. Statistical analysis was performed using JMP version 11 (ASA Institute, Cary, NC, USA). The chi-square test and Fisher's exact probability test were performed for categorical variables, and the Student's t-test and the Mann–Whitney U-test for unpaired data of continuous variables were performed to compare the clinicopathological characteristics between the two groups. Overall and disease–free survival curves, which were measured from surgery, were estimated using the Kaplan–Meier method, and statistical differences were examined using the log-rank test. Univariate and multivariate survival analyses were performed using the likelihood ratio test of the stratified Cox proportional hazards model. Values of p<0.05 derived from two-tailed test were considered statistically significant.

Results

Comparison of clinicopathological characteristics between patients with and without SPCs after propensity score matching. A total of 45 out of 728 patients (6.2%) had SPCs after gastrectomy for gastric cancer. Eighty-six patients, consisting of 43 patients with postoperative infectious complications and 43 patients without were included in the analysis after propensity score matching. Table I shows the clinicopathological characteristics of these two groups; there were no significant differences in patient background between the two groups.

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Comparison of clinicopathological characteristics between patients with and without severe postoperative complications (SPC) after propensity score matching.

Decrease in serum albumin level at postoperative days 1 and 3. The decrease in serum albumin level between patients with and without SPCs at postoperative days 1 and 3 was compared but there was no significant difference between the two groups (Figure 1).

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Comparison of the decrease in serum albumin level between patients with and without severe postoperative complications on postoperative days 1 (A) and 3 (B). The boxes, lines and bars respectively indicate lower and upper quartile, median values, and minimum and maximum values. The decrease in serum albumin level at both time points did not significantly differ between the two groups.

Prognostic impact of a prolonged serum albumin decrease. Next, we investigated the prognostic impact of a prolonged serum albumin decrease. In patients without SPCs, there was no significant difference in overall (Figure 2A) or disease-free survival (Figure 2B) between patients with and those without a prolonged serum albumin decrease (p=0.547 and p=0.785, respectively). However, in patients with SPCs, those with a prolonged low serum albumin level had significantly poorer overall (Figure 3A) and disease-free survival (Figure 3B) (p=0.040 and p=0.041, respectively). Univariate and multivariate analyses using Cox's proportional hazards model revealed that a prolonged low serum albumin level was an independent prognostic factor in patients with SPCs (hazard ratio=7.28, 95% confidence interval=1.132-187.5; p=0.042) (Table II).

Discussion

Patients with gastric cancer following gastrectomy often develop malnutrition. In this study, we demonstrated that a prolonged postoperatively low serum albumin level contributed to a significantly poorer prognosis in patients with SPCs. Furthermore, this characteristic was an independent prognostic factor by multivariate analysis in patients with SPCs. These results suggest that postoperative nutritional maintenance may be necessary to improve a poor prognosis following SPCs in patients with gastric cancer. As far as we are aware, this is the first report that a long-term low postoperative serum albumin level can affect prognosis in patients with gastric cancer.

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Univariate analysis of overall survival after surgery using the Cox's proportional hazard model in patients with severe postoperative complications. The multivariate analysis using Cox's proportional hazard model confirmed the prognostic value of postoperative serum albumin decrease (HR=728, 95% CI=1.132–187.5, p=0.042).

Serum albumin level has often been used as an indicator of nutritional status. There are many reports that a low preoperative nutritional status might be associated with the occurrence of postoperative complications and a long-term poor prognosis in gastric cancer. (5-7). Migita et al. reported that the preoperative serum albumin level and total lymphocyte count were associated with the occurrence of postoperative complications and long-term outcomes (7). In the Glasgow Prognostic Score, the serum albumin level is used to assess the degree of cachexia and the prognosis of patients with cancer (8-10). These findings prompted us to investigate the clinical impact of postoperative serum albumin level on postoperative complications and prognosis for further application in clinical settings.

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Prognostic impact of a prolonged serum albumin decrease in patients without severe postoperative complications. There were no significant difference in overall (A) and disease-free survival (B) between patients with and without a prolonged serum albumin decrease.

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Prognostic impact of a prolonged serum albumin decrease in patients with severe postoperative complications. Both overall (A) and disease-free survival (B) was significantly poorer in patients with a prolonged serum albumin decrease.

We hypothesized that a decrease in serum albumin after gastrectomy might affect the occurrence of postoperative complications and the long-term prognosis. Our findings show that a low perioperative serum albumin level after gastrectomy was not associated with the occurrence of postoperative complications; however, it was related to a poorer prognosis. Regarding the perioperative serum albumin level after gastrectomy, this may be influenced by various factors such as intraoperative bleeding, intra- and postoperative inflammation, and albumin transfusion. Therefore, a short-term decrease in serum albumin level after gastrectomy may not accurately reflect the true nutritional status of patients. On the other hand, the long-term serum albumin level is not affected by such surgical factors and may be a reliable indicator of nutritional status.

Several recent studies identified that complications due to postoperative infections can contribute to recurrence and poor outcomes in patients with gastric cancer (14-17). Recent advances in surgical techniques and perioperative management have reduced the occurrence of such complications; however, these complications also occur due to various inevitable reasons. A treatment strategy for avoiding the negative impact of postoperative infectious complications for prognosis is urgently required. Namely, special effort to obtain a better prognosis of patients with postoperative complications might be needed. In this study, we demonstrated that postoperative nutritional status for those with a serum albumin decrease of <0.5 g/dl at 3 months was related to better prognosis even after SPCs in patients with gastric cancer.

Recently, Imamura et al. reported that supplementation of an oral elemental diet reduced postoperative weight loss in patients with gastric cancer undergoing gastrectomy (18). Body weight loss has been reported to be an independent prognostic factor for poorer recurrence-free survival (19) and to be associated with the lower rate of continuation of adjuvant chemotherapy (19, 20). Considering the results of this study, supplementation with an oral elemental diet or other nutritional treatment strategy may be necessary not only to reduce postoperative body weight loss but also to improve the poor prognosis of patients with SPCs after gastrectomy. Long-term stable nutrition and treatment may maintain immune competence and suppress recurrence derived from micrometastases after curative surgery (21, 22).

One limitation of our study was that the results were retrospectively demonstrated with a small number of patients and variations of the treatment at a single institute. A large-scale or multicenter prospective cohort study is warranted to validate the clinical importance of the long-term serum albumin level after gastrectomy.

Conclusion

Postoperative long-term nutritional status was related to the prognosis in patients with SPCs. Postoperative nutritional maintenance may improve for poor prognosis following complications from postoperative infections in patients with gastric cancer.

Footnotes

  • ↵* These Authors contributed equally to this study.

  • Received March 9, 2018.
  • Revision received March 29, 2018.
  • Accepted April 3, 2018.
  • Copyright© 2018, International Institute of Anticancer Research (Dr. George J. Delinasios), All rights reserved

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