Incidence and treatment of mediastinal leakage after esophagectomy: Insights from the multicenter study on mediastinal leaks

Table 3 Mediastinal leaks and mortality rates in the multicenter study on mediastinal leaks

	TEG	30-d mortality		90-d mortality		Post-op day of diagnosis1
		Leak n (%)	All n (%)	Leak n (%)	All n (%)
Patients	501	3 (0.6)	7 (1.4)	9 (1.8)	16 (3.2)
Leaks2	59 (11.8)	3 (5.1)		6 (10.2)		3 (1-58)
Necrosis2
Type I	5			0		8 (4-8)
Type II	30			2 (6.7)	2 (6.7)	4 (1-28)
Type III	24	3 (12.5)		7 (29.2)	10 (41.7)	7 (4-58)
P value		0.038		< 0.001

¹Median values for the postoperative day on which the mediastinal leak was diagnosed;

²Mediastinal leak was defined according to the taxonomy recently proposed by the Esophageal Complications Consensus Group[11]. TEG: Transthoracic esophagectomy with intrathoracic anastomosis.