Clinical Trial: Perioperative Energy Expenditure in Major Liver Resection
Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: RECRUITING
Condition: Cancer
Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
Official Title: Pre- and Postoperative Energy Expenditure in Major Liver Resection: What do we Ask From a Patient?
Brief Summary:
Rationale: Complication rates after major liver resections remain as high as 43%.Many initiatives have been taken to reduce postoperative morbidity.As such, prehabilitation programmes are increasingly used for patients undergoing major abdominal surgery.Improvement of aerobic fitness has been proven to reduce complication rates, especially in high-risk patients (those with a low preoperative aerobic capacity).Different conceptual hypotheses exist of the underlying mechanism of variability in postoperative…
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