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The long-term effects of gastrectomy on the nutritional and immunologic status were prospectively studied in 79 gastric cancer patients who underwent curative gastrectomy and were followed by us after operation for an average of 5 years and 3 months. The percent of actual weight to pre-illness normal weight was lower than 95% in 80% of all study patients. Retinol binding protein, prealbumin, and albumin were lower than normal in 17%, 26%, and 26% of the patients, respectively. The mean values of the percent normal weight, retinol binding protein, and prealbumin were significantly lower in the totally gastrectomized patients than in the subtotally gastrectomized ones (P<0.01). The procedures of reconstruction did not affect the nutritional status except for the prealbumin level which was significantly decreased in Roux-en-Y cases than in interposed cases of totally gastrectomized patients. Cell-mediated immunological alterations after gastrectomy were observed in 31%, 37%, and 71% of all patients for OKT3 subpopulation, OKT4/OKT8 ratio, and blastogenesis by phytohemagglutinin, respectively. A multivariate analysis revealed that the long-term immunity of the gastrectomized patients after operation was not affected by the levels of albumin and rapid turnover proteins but by the splenectomy and weight loss they underwent.
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Tsuburaya, A., Noguchi, Y., Yoshikawa, T. et al. Long-term effect of radical gastrectomy on nutrition and immunity. Surg Today 23, 320–324 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00309049
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