{"id":81630,"date":"2017-08-04T21:08:48","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T21:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/reconstruction-method-in-gastric-ca-surgery-affects-bone-density\/"},"modified":"2017-08-04T21:08:48","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T21:08:48","slug":"reconstruction-method-in-gastric-ca-surgery-affects-bone-density","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/reconstruction-method-in-gastric-ca-surgery-affects-bone-density\/","title":{"rendered":"Reconstruction method in gastric CA surgery affects bone density"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<figure class=\"image-block\">\n<p>                <\/a><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>(HealthDay)\u2014The reconstruction method may affect postoperative bone mineral density (BMD) loss in gastric cancer, according to a study published online July 31 in the <i>Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology<\/i>.\n                                <\/p>\n<p>Taisuke Imamura, M.D., from the Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine in Japan, and colleagues assessed 148 consecutive patients who underwent distal gastrectomy with Billroth-I (B-I) or Roux-en-Y (R-Y) reconstruction for stage I gastric cancer<\/a> (2008 to 2012). BMD data were was retrospectively assessed using computed tomography attenuation values of the first lumbar vertebra after surgery.<\/p>\n<p>In multivariate analysis, the researchers found that R-Y reconstruction was an independent risk factor<\/a> for BMD loss after distal gastrectomy (P\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;B-I reconstruction<\/a> might be a preferable method for preventing BMD loss after gastrectomy in gastric cancer<\/a> patients,&#8221; the authors write.\n                                                                <\/p>\n<p class=\"news-relevant\">\n                                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"toolsicon ic-rel\" src=\"https:\/\/b98584f181.site.internapcdn.net\/tmpl\/v5\/img\/1x1.gif\" width=\"14\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n                                        <b>Explore further:<\/b><br \/>\n                                        Retrieved lymph node number affects prognosis in gastric CA<\/a>\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>\n                                        <b>More information:<\/b><br \/>\n                                        Abstract<\/a><br \/>Full Text (subscription or payment may be required)<\/a><br \/>\n                                        <\/p>\n<footer class=\"post-floor clearfix\">\n                                    <!-- rating --><\/p>\n<p>                                                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"toolsicon icon-fbck\" src=\"https:\/\/b98584f181.site.internapcdn.net\/tmpl\/v5\/img\/1x1.gif\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" alt=\"feedback\" \/><br \/>\n                                                feedback to editors<br \/>\n                                            <\/a><\/p>\n<section class=\"copyright\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Healthday\" src=\"https:\/\/b98584f181.site.internapcdn.net\/tmpl\/v5\/img\/content\/HEALTHDAY_Web_small2.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"24\" \/>                                            Copyright \u00a9 2017 HealthDay<\/a>. 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Taisuke Imamura, M.D., from the Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine in Japan, and colleagues assessed 148 consecutive patients who underwent distal gastrectomy with Billroth-I (B-I) or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}