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[A preliminary study on the relationship between nutritional status and postoperative complications in patients with
1Department of Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Stomatology, Beijing Medical University, Beijing 100081.
Objectives:
To study the role of nutritional factor in the development of postoperative complications in patients with head and neck malignancies.
Methods:
Postoperative complications of 96 patients with head and neck malignancies who were operated on were surveyed. Twenty-seven developed postoperative complications; the remaining 69 went uneventful. Comparisons of nutritional status and clinical variables between these two groups were made.
Results:
1. The prevalence of poor preoperative nutritional status in the complication group (56%) was higher as compared with that in the noncomplication group (20%) (P < 0.001); 2. values of body weight, triceps skin fold thickness, arm circumference, arm muscle circumference, and creatinine-height index in the complication group decreased much more significantly than in the noncomplication group (P < 0.001); 3. the nitrogen and calorie intake within the first postoperative week was lower in the complication group than in the non-complication group (P < 0.001).
Conclusions:
Nutritional factor plays a very important role in the development of postoperative complication and the perioperative nutritional support for head and neck surgical patients should not be ignored.