Nutritional status, prognostic nutritional index, and preoperative nutritional support as prognostic factors in clinical outcome of gastrointestinal cancer patients

• Nurpudji Astuti Taslim ^[1] ; Grace M Tombilayuk ^[1] ; Margaretha Dianasanti ^[1] ; Suryani As'ad ^[1] ; Agussalim Bukhari ^[1] ; Haerani A Rasyid ^[1] ; A.Yasmin Syauki ^[1] ; Prihantono Prihantono ^[1]
  1. [1] Hasanuddin University

     Hasanuddin University

     Indonesia

     
• Localización: Nutrición clínica y dietética hospitalaria, ISSN 0211-6057, Vol. 43, Nº. 1, 2023, págs. 81-89
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Introduction: Cancer patients are at risk for malnutrition.Nutrition screening using Subjective Global Assessment andPrognostic Nutritional Index (PNI) was associated with post-operative outcomes. Preoperative nutrition support should begiven before patient undergo elective surgery. This study aimsto find the relationship between nutritional status, PNI, dura-tion of preoperative nutritional support to clinical outcome ofgastrointestinal cancer patients, which are postoperativecomplications and length of stay. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study of 72 eligible sub-jects of 132 participants with gastrointestinal cancer who un-derwent surgery and met the research criteria, using medicalrecords data. Moderate malnutrition was observed to behigher with preoperative PNI values less than 35. Result: There was no significant relationship between nu-tritional status, PNI, duration of preoperative nutritional sup-port on the incidence of infection and surgical complicationsand total length of stay of postoperative gastrointestinal can-cer patients. Conclusion: there was no significant correlation between3 variables with the incidence postoperative complicationsand total length of hospital stay, but there was a significantrelationship between the duration of preoperative nutritionalsupport and the postoperative length of hospital stay in pa-tients with gastrointestinal cancer