National outcomes of laparoscopic Heller myotomy: operative complications and risk factors for adverse events

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 3097-3105

  Ross, Samuel W ^a   Oommen, Bindhu ^a   Wormer, Blair A ^a   Walters, Amanda L ^a   Matthews, Brent D ^a   Heniford, B T ^a   Augenstein, Vedra A ^a  

^a CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Achalasia; Complications; Heller myotomy; Intra operative EGD; Laparoscopic Heller myotomy; Myotomy

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CARDIOESOPHAGOMYOTOMY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LAPAROSCOPIC HELLER MYOTOMY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MORTALITY; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SMOKING; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT DURATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WOUND COMPLICATION; WOUND DEHISCENCE; AGED; ESOPHAGEAL ACHALASIA; EVALUATION STUDY; FACTUAL DATABASE; LAPAROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ESOPHAGEAL ACHALASIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPERATIVE TIME; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84944323604     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-014-4054-0     Document Type: Article

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