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Table 3 Postoperative complications and Clavien-Dindo grade

From: Evaluation of resection of the gastroesophageal junction and jejunal interposition (Merendino procedure) as a rescue procedure in patients with a failed redo antireflux procedure. A single-center experience

Patient

Complication

Treatment

Clavien-Dindo grade

1

Pneumonia, pleural effusion

antibiotics, thoracocentesis

II

2

None

 

0

3

Artial fibrilation, septicaemia, bleeding, wound rupture, abdominal abscess, pneumonia, anastomotic leak

reoperation × 3, stent, drainage and antibiotics

IIIb

4

bleeding, septicaemia, pulmonary septic embolism

Reoperation, antibiotics

IIIb

5

pneumonia, small bowel paralysis

Antibiotics

II

6

None

 

0

7

anastomotic leak, pneumonia, septicaemia, respiratory failure, mediastinitis, pleural effusion

Reoperation, stent, antibiotics, ventilator support,

IVa

8

bleeding, pneumonia

Reoperation, antibiotics

IIIb

9

none

 

0

10

none

 

0

11

none

 

0

12

respiratory failure, pleural effusion, septicaemia

Ventilator support, thoracocentesis, antibiotics

IVb