Is preoperative protein-rich nutrition effective on postoperative outcome in non-small cell lung cancer surgery? A prospective randomized study

• DOI: 10.1186/s13019-016-0407-1
• Publication Date: 2016-01-19T00:59:40Z
• Authors: Seyda Ors Kaya; Tevfik Ilker Akcam; Kenan Can Ceylan; Ozgur Samancılar; Ozgur Ozturk; Ozan Usluer
• Keywords: Cardiothoracic surgery; Thoracotomy; Serum Albumin; Medical nutrition therapy

Protein-rich nutrition is necessary for wound healing after surgery. In this study, the benefit of preoperative nutritional support was investigated non-small cell lung cancer patients who underwent anatomic resection. A prospective study planned with approval our institutional review board. Fifty-eight resection in department between January 2014 and December were randomized. Thirty-one applied a program immune modulating formulae (enriched arginine, omega-3 fatty acids nucleotides) ten days. There 27 control group fed only normal diet. Patients malnourished, diabetic or had undergone bronchoplastic procedures neoadjuvant therapy excluded from study. Patients' baseline serum albumin levels, defined as level before any program, levels on postoperative third day calculated recorded other data. Anatomic performed by thoracotomy 20 patients, 11 operated videothoracoscopy group. On hand 16 group, patients' decreased to 25.71 % day, but reduction 14.69 difference statistically significant (p < 0.001). Complications developed 12 (44.4 %) compared 6 = 0.049). The mean chest tube drainage time (1–42) days against 4 (2–15) 0.019). Our showed that beneficial decreasing complications removal 25 non-malnourished