Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy

Author(s):  
Brandon Merling ◽  
Frank Dupont

Esophageal cancer is the eighth most common malignancy worldwide, producing a high morbidity and mortality rate around the globe. Minimally invasive esophagectomy (MIE) is most commonly performed on patients with this devastating disease. Esophagectomy is a high-risk procedure, and perioperative mortality remains around 5%–8%. Because esophageal cancer is associated with chronic alcohol and tobacco use, patients have serious comorbid conditions that affect anesthetic management and perioperative care. Among them, pulmonary complications and anastomotic failure remain the most common causes of perioperative morbidity and mortality. The anesthesiologist managing a patient during MIE must be able to reduce the effect of the patient’s multiple comorbidities intraoperatively while mitigating the factors that lead to adverse postoperative outcomes.

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farrukh Hassan Rizvi ◽  
Syed Shahrukh Hassan Rizvi ◽  
Aamir Ali Syed ◽  
Shahid Khattak ◽  
Ali Raza Khan

Background. Two common procedures for esophageal resection are Ivor Lewis esophagectomy and transhiatal esophagectomy. Both procedures have high morbidity rates of 20–46%. Minimally invasive esophagectomy has been introduced to decrease morbidity. We report initial experience of MIE to determine the morbidity and mortality associated with this procedure during learning phase.Material and Methods. Patients undergoing MIE at our institute from January 2011 to May 2013 were reviewed. Record was kept for any morbidity and mortality. Descriptive statistics were presented as frequencies and continuous variables were presented as median. Survival analysis was performed using Kaplan Meier curves.Results. We performed 51 minimally invasive esophagectomies. Perioperative morbidity was in 16 (31.37%) patients. There were 3 (5.88%) anastomotic leaks. We encountered 1 respiratory complication. Reexploration was required in 3 (5.88%) patients. Median operative time was 375 minutes. Median hospital stay was 10 days. The most frequent long-term morbidity was anastomotic narrowing observed in 5 (9.88%) patients. There were no perioperative mortalities. Our mean overall survival was 37.66 months (95% confidence interval 33.75 to 41.56 months). Mean disease-free survival was 24.43 months (95% CI 21.26 to 27.60 months).Conclusion. Minimally invasive esophagectomy, when performed in the learning phase, has acceptable morbidity and mortality.


2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (Supplement_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jang-Ming Lee ◽  
Chen Ke-Cheng ◽  
Lin Mong-Wei ◽  
Yang Pei-Wen ◽  
Huang Pei-Ming

Abstract   Single-incision thoracoscopic and laparoscopic procedures has have been applied in treating various diseases. However, it is limited in literature for such procedures used in treating esophageal cancer. Methods Minimally invasive esophagectomy (MIE) with a single-incision approach in the thoracoscopic and laparoscopic procedures was attempted in 144 patients with esophageal cancer. Results There was 96 patients underwent a McKeown procedure and 48 an Ivor Lewis procedure repectively. The mean ventilator usage of the patients after surgery was 0.3 ± 0.6 days, the mean ICU stay was 7.42 ± 17.15 days, and the mean number of dissected lymph nodes was 43.5 ± 21.8. There 11 patients suffered from postoperative complications, including 3 pulmonary complications, 4 anastomotic leakage and 4 vocal cord palsy. There are no 30-day mortality, however, there were one patient died from ARDS 40 days after surgery. Conclusion Single-port MIE seems to be a feasible option for treating patients with esophageal cancer, which offers an acceptable perioperative surgical outcome. However, the long-term survival results of the patients requires to be follow-up in the future.


2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 133-146
Author(s):  
F. Achim ◽  
M. Gheorghe ◽  
A. Constantin ◽  
P. Hoara ◽  
C. Popa ◽  
...  

Esophagectomy is a major surgical procedure with morbidity, and mortality related to the patient'scondition, stage of the disease at the moment of diagnosis, complementary treatments and surgicalexperience of the surgeon. Minimally invasive esophagectomy (MIE) may lead to a reduction inperioperative morbidity and mortality with an acceptable quality of life and similar oncologic resultsto an open approach. We present an experience of the Center of Excellence in Esophageal Surgeryregarding totally MIE through thoracolaparoscopic modified McKeown triple approach, followedby esophageal reconstruction by gastric intrathoracic pull-up and cervical esophagogastricanastomosis and feeding jejunostomy in a patient with thoracic esophageal cancer who underwentpreoperative neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy. The short-term outcomes of the totally minimallyinvasive esophagectomy procedure were very encouraging. The overall operative times were:thoracoscopic - 120 minutes, laparoscopic - 130 minutes and cervical - 50 minutes with a total of360 minutes. The intraoperative blood loss was 200 ml. The postoperative outcome was favorablewith early feeding on the jejunostomy. The control of cervical anastomosis was performed in the 6thday postoperative and the patient was discharged in the 10th day postoperative without anysymptomatology. At the first and third-month follow-up was not reported any postoperativecomplications. The totally minimally invasive approach using advanced technology of endoscopicsurgery allowed for this patient a simple postoperative evolution, no major complications and agood recovery after extensive surgery. The solid experience in open esophageal surgery ofUpper Gastro-Intestinal surgeons provides a fast learning curve of complex minimally invasivesurgical procedures with reduced perioperative morbidity. Long-term follow-up can confirm theresults from the literature regarding the survival, which is expected to be for these patients atleast equivalent with outcomes after open esophagectomy.


2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 126-126
Author(s):  
Jang-Ming Lee ◽  
Sunn-Mao Yang ◽  
Pei-Ming Huang

Abstract Background Single-incision throacoscopic and laparoscopic procedure has been applied to treating various diseases. In the current study, we applied this novel surgical technique in the minimally invasive esophagectomy for esophageal cancer. Methods Minimally invasive esophagectomy (MIE) with single-port approach in the thoracoscopic and laparoscopic procedures was attempted for patients with esophageal cancer. Patients with esophageal cancer who underwent MIE from 2006 to 2016 were evaluated. A 3–4 cm incision was created both in the thoracoscopic and the laparoscopic phases during the single-incision MIE procedures. A propensity-matched comparison was made between the two groups of patients with single-incision and multi-incision MIE. Results We analyzed a total of 48 pairs of patients with propensity-matched from the cohort of 360 patients undergoing MIE during 2006–2015. There were 12 patients having postoperative complications (25%), including 4 (8.3%) of anastomotic leakage one (2.1%) of pulmonary complications and 3 (6.3%) with vocal cord palsy in the patients undergoing single-incision MIE (SIMIE). There is no statistical difference in terms of postoperative ICU and hospital stay, number of dissected lymph nodes and presence of major surgical complications (anastomotic leakage and pulmonary complications) between the two groups of patients. The pain score one week after surgery was significantly lower in the single-incision group (P < 0.05). There was no surgical mortality in the single-incision MIE group. Conclusion Minimally invasive esophogectomy performed with a single-incision approach is feasible for treating patients with esophageal cancer, with a comparable perioperative outcome with that of multi-incision approaches. The postoperative pain one week after surgery was significantly reduced in patients undergoing single-incision MIE. Disclosure All authors have declared no conflicts of interest.


2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 1546
Author(s):  
Subbiah Shanmugam ◽  
Syed Afroze Hussain ◽  
Kishore Kumar Reddy

Background: The objective of the study was to study morbidity and mortality patterns in patients with carcinoma oesophagus who underwent minimally invasive esophagectomy (MIE) in a tertiary centre for oncology in South India.Methods: This was a retrospective observational study of 20 patients with carcinoma esophagus who underwent minimally invasive esophagectomy in center for oncology, Government Royapettah Hospital. Medical records of all these patients treated from September 2016 to August 2019 were collected from medical records department and details regarding the type of lesion, site of the lesion, preoperative chemoradiotherapy, type of surgery performed and post-operative complications were analyzed.Results: Out of 20 patients who underwent minimally invasive esophagectomy 13 were female and 7 were male. Among these 18 had squamous cell carcinoma, 2 had adenocarcinoma. Thirteen patients had lesion in middle third oesophagus and 7 patients had lesion in lower third oesophagus. Nineteen patients underwent surgery after chemoradiation and one patient underwent upfront surgery. Twelve patients underwent thoracolaparoscopic esophagectomy and 8 patients underwent trans hiatal esophagectomy. Perioperative complications were seen in 8 patients of whom pulmonary complications seen in 6 were most common. Anastomotic leaks occurred in 4 patients of which 2 patients were reoperated. One patient died within 30 days of surgery. Voice change and ECG abnormalities occurred in 2 patients each.Conclusions: Minimally invasive esophagectomy is safe and associated with comparable morbidity. Though the initial learning curve is steep, it helps in faster recovery of the patient. Also, the peri-operative outcome tends to improve with experience.


Author(s):  
Tobias Hauge ◽  
Dag T Førland ◽  
Hans-Olaf Johannessen ◽  
Egil Johnson

Summary At our hospital, the main treatment for resectable esophageal cancer (EC) has since 2013 been total minimally invasive esophagectomy (TMIE). The aim of this study was to present the short- and long-term results in patients operated with TMIE. This cross-sectional study includes all patients scheduled for TMIE from June 2013 to January 2016 at Oslo University Hospital. Data on morbidity, mortality, and survival were retrospectively collected from the patient administration system and the Norwegian Cause of Death Registry. Long-term postoperative health-related quality of life (HRQL) and level of dysphagia were assessed by patients completing the following questionaries: EORTC QLQ-OG25, QLQ-C30, and the Ogilvie grading scale. A total of 123 patients were included in this study with a median follow-up time of 58 months (1–88 months). 85% had adenocarcinoma, 15% squamous cell carcinoma. Seventeen patients (14%) had T1N0M0, 68 (55%) T2-T3N0M0, or T1-T2N1M0 and 38 (31%) had either T3N1M0 or T4anyNM0. Ninety-eight patients (80%) received neoadjuvant (radio)chemotherapy and 104 (85%) had R0 resection. Anastomotic leak rate and 90-days mortality were 14% and 2%, respectively. The 5-year overall survival was 53%. Patients with tumor free resection margins of &gt;1 mm (R0) had a 5-year survival of 57%. Median 60 months (range 49–80) postoperatively the main symptoms reducing HRQL were anxiety, chough, insomnia, and reflux. Median Ogilvie score was 0 (0–1). In this study, we report relatively low mortality and good overall survival after TMIE for EC. Moreover, key symptoms reducing long-term HRQL were identified.


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