Clinical Study
The Effect of Immunonutrition on the Postoperative Complications in Thymoma with Myasthenia Gravis
Table 2
Patient characteristics between two groups.
| | Immunonutrition () | Standard nutrition () | |
| Age | | | >0.05 | Gender | | | >0.05 | Male | 48 (47.1%) | 67 (47.2%) | | Female | 54 (52.9) | 75 (52.8%) | | BMI | | | >0.05 | Performance status | | | >0.05 | 1 | 20 (19.6%) | 30 (21.1%) | | 2 | 66 (64.7%) | 92 (64.8%) | | 3 | 16 (15.7%) | 20 (14.1%) | | Type of thymoma | | | >0.05 | I | 22 (21.6%) | 31 (21.8%) | | II | 78 (76.5%) | 108 (76.1%) | | III | 2 (1.9%) | 3 (2.1) | | Type of MG | | | >0.05 | I | 22 (21.6%) | 33 (23.2%) | | II | 63 (61.9) | 85 (59.9%) | | III | 12 (11.8%) | 16 (11.3%) | | IV | 5 (4.9%) | 8 (5.6%) | | V | 0 | 0 | | Operative time (min) | | | >0.05 | Pathology | | | >0.05 | A | 6 (5.9%) | 8 (5.6%) | | AB | 42 (41.2%) | 60 (42.3%) | | B1 | 14 (13.7%) | 19 (13.4%) | | B2 | 33 (32.4%) | 44 (31.0) | | B3 | 4 (3.9%) | 7 (4.9%) | | C | 3 (2.9) | 4 (2.8%) | | Operative approach | | | >0.05 | Right chest (VATS) | 74 (72.5%) | 104 (73.2%) | | Sternal (OPEN) | 16 (15.7%) | 22 (15.5%) | | Subxiphoid (VATS) | 12 (11.8%) | 16 (11.3%) | | Postoperative complications | 21 (20.6%) | 35 (24.6%) | <0.05 | Quantity of drainage | | | <0.05 | Hospital stays | | | <0.05 |
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