Resumen de Nutritional status, prognostic nutritional index, and preoperative nutritional support as prognostic factors in clinical outcome of gastrointestinal cancer patients
Nurpudji Astuti Taslim, Grace M. Tombilayuk, Margaretha Dianasanti, Suryani As'ad, Agussalim Bukhari, Haerani A. Rasyid, A.Yasmin Syauki, Prihantono Prihantono
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
