Fumihito Kasai, Takahisa Kobayashi, Eriko Hoshi, Takashi Nagai, Takeshi Yamashita, Koji Otsuka, Masahiko Murakami, Nobuyuki Kawate
OBJECTIVES: At our hospital, prehabilitation has been provided to patients undergoing esophageal cancer surgery since October 2019. This study explored the effects of prehabilitation based on the accumulated database of these patients. METHODS: This retrospective cohort study included 621 patients who underwent thoracoscopic subtotal esophagectomy. Multiple linear regression analysis was performed using postoperative hospital stay as the objective variable and age, sex, body mass index (BMI), preoperative ventilatory impairment, left ventricular ejection fraction, preoperative hemoglobin A1c, clinical stage, histological type, operative time, surgical blood loss, postoperative complications, and prehabilitation as explanatory variables...
2024: Progress in rehabilitation medicine