Abstract
Background
After esophagectomy, the postoperative rate of anastomotic leakage is up to 30% and is the main driver of postoperative morbidity. Contemporary management includes endoluminal vacuum sponge therapy (EndoVAC) with good success rates. Vacuum therapy improves tissue perfusion in superficial wounds, but this has not been shown for gastric conduits. This study aimed to assess gastric conduit perfusion with EndoVAC in a porcine model for esophagectomy.
Material and methods
A porcine model (n = 18) was used with gastric conduit formation and induction of ischemia at the cranial end of the gastric conduit with measurement of tissue perfusion over time. In three experimental groups EndoVAC therapy was then used in the gastric conduit (− 40, − 125, and − 200 mmHg). Changes in tissue perfusion and tissue edema were assessed using hyperspectral imaging. The study was approved by local authorities (Project License G-333/19, G-67/22).
Results
Induction of ischemia led to significant reduction of tissue oxygenation from 65.1 ± 2.5% to 44.7 ± 5.5% (p < 0.01). After EndoVAC therapy with − 125 mmHg a significant increase in tissue oxygenation to 61.9 ± 5.5% was seen after 60 min and stayed stable after 120 min (62.9 ± 9.4%, p < 0.01 vs tissue ischemia). A similar improvement was seen with EndoVAC therapy at − 200 mmHg. A nonsignificant increase in oxygenation levels was also seen after therapy with − 40 mmHg, from 46.3 ± 3.4% to 52.5 ± 4.3% and 53.9 ± 8.1% after 60 and 120 min respectively (p > 0.05). An increase in tissue edema was observed after 60 and 120 min of EndoVAC therapy with − 200 mmHg but not with − 40 and − 125 mmHg.
Conclusions
EndoVAC therapy with a pressure of − 125 mmHg significantly increased tissue perfusion of ischemic gastric conduit. With better understanding of underlying physiology the optimal use of EndoVAC therapy can be determined including a possible preemptive use for gastric conduits with impaired arterial perfusion or venous congestion.
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Esophageal cancer is the ninth most common cancer in the world, with the number of cases rising in industrialized countries [1]. Potentially curative treatment involves esophagectomy, which is considered a high-risk procedure. The 5-year survival rate is 20–40% and in 40–80% of the cases postoperative complications occur, of which the anastomotic leakage (AL) is the main driver of morbidity and mortality [2]. Despite optimization of the anastomotic technique, the rate of AL is still high, varying between 5 and 30% [2]. In addition, this dreaded complication increases the length of hospital stay, delays the transition to a normal diet, and increases the risk of strictures or revisional surgery [3,4,5,6]. AL is associated with a reduced quality of life and has a negative impact on long-term survival [7,8,9]. Complication management of AL after esophagectomy can consist of conservative therapy, endoscopic intervention, radiologic intervention, and surgical intervention [10]. The most commonly used procedures are endoscopic stent placement and endoluminal vacuum therapy (EndoVAC) and recent clinical evidence shows good results for EndoVAC in management of AL [11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24]. As a result, some clinics even describe establishing a preemptive EndoVAC therapy after esophagectomy for high-risk patients, or even independently from the patient’s risk profile [25]. However, very little is known about the physiological basis of EndoVAC and its effects and the results of available studies show some discrepancies. In 1997, Morykwas et al. first described in a series of animal experiments a novel subatmospheric pressure technique for wound treatment, the vacuum assisted closure (VAC), which significantly increased blood flow levels, rates of granulation tissue formation, and clearance of bacteria from infected superficial wounds [26]. In addition to increased blood flow, the reduction of tissue edema after VAC therapy has been described [26,27,28]. The available studies all investigated superficial wound treatment and there is no evidence that these mechanisms of action are applicable also to EndoVAC therapy of internal organs.
In general, AL is of a multifactorial nature. More than twenty risk factors varying from the surgical techniques to individual patients characteristics such as diabetes or overweight have been recently defined [29,30,31,32,33]. Interestingly, risk factors directly associated with perfusion of the gastric conduit, such as calcification of celiac axis or intraoperative hypotension, increased the AL risk by three to four-fold [29]. Therefore, the aim of the current study was to investigate systematically the effects of EndoVAC therapy on gastric conduit perfusion with different suction settings on gastric conduit tissue, and after inducing ischemia in the anastomotic area by interrupting the arterial blood supply or inducing venous congestion.
Materials and methods
Study design
The EndoVAC study was a surgical trial with 18 piglets undergoing gastric conduit formation and induction of conduit ischemia (Fig. 1.). Piglets were divided into three experimental groups that received an EndoVAC therapy regimen differing in the level of negative pressure. Examined negative pressure levels were 40 mmHg, 125 mmHg, and 200 mmHg for group A, B, and C, respectively. The control group (group D, n = 4) underwent conduit ischemia for the entire period of the experiment without consecutive EndoVAC therapy. Piglets (Large White, mean weight: 35.6 ± 4.8 kg) were supplied by the local farmer. All experiments were conducted by the same surgeon.
Experimental procedure
After a preoperative fasting period of 24 h without withholding water, the premedication was administered approximately 60 min before surgery, with intramuscular azaperone (6 mg/kg) followed by ketamine (20 mg/kg) with midazolam (0,75 mg/kg). Intravenous propofol (3 mg/kg) was used for anesthesia induction prior to endotracheal intubation. Inhalational anesthesia was maintained with 2% sevoflurane and intravenous ketamine with midazolam for analgesia.
After performing a median laparotomy, the stomach was first mobilized through dividing the gastric vessels of the lesser curvature and dissecting the paraesophageal region by using a monopolar vessel-sealing device (LigaSure Maryland™, Medtronic, USA). The right gastroepiploic artery was maintained at all times. Next, the esophagus was disconnected 1 cm above the gastroesophageal junction and a 56-French bougie introduced through the incision. Starting at the lesser curvature, the gastric conduit (GC) was created along the 56-Fr bougie using a stapling device (ENDO GIA™ equipped with 60 mm Blue Reloads, Medtronic, USA). Subsequently, the previously prepared sponge connected to a vacuum device (Invia Liberty, Medela Medizintechnik GmbH & Co. Handels KG, Eching, Germany) was placed in the gastric lumen and the tissue ischemia was induced toward the lesser curvature/staple line by disrupting the microcirculation by strong magnet compression of the tissue at the greater curvature parallel to the gastroepiploic vessels distally as previously described [34]. The incision was closed with 3–0 sutures to avoid loss of pressure during the subsequent EndoVAC therapy. After 2 h, the continuous negative pressure was switched on and left for another 2 h (Fig. 1). The animals were then euthanized by intravenous administration of 50 ml potassium chloride (7.45%)(Supplementary file 1.).
Intraoperative hyperspectral measurements
The measurements were done with the hyperspectral imaging system TIVITA® Tissue (Diaspective Vision GmbH, Germany) at different time points depicted in Fig. 1. To acquire hyperspectral images the hyperspectral imager was placed 35–40 cm above the porcine stomach, the ambient lights switched off and hyperspectral images were acquired with the camera-integrated software. The following parameters were recorded: (1) tissue oxygenation (StO2 [%]), tissue hemoglobin index (THI), Near-infrared perfusion index (NIR), and tissue water index (TWI).
Statistical methods
Raw data were obtained and analyzed using the annotation software [35, 36]. Then, data were entered into a spreadsheet and the statistical evaluation was done with GraphPad Prism version 9.2.0. for Mac (GraphPad Software, San Diego, California, USA). A p-value ≤ 0.05 was considered statistically significant. In case of parametric data, paired and unpaired t-test was used. For comparisons of multiple groups over the time, one-way ANOVA was used in case of parametric normal distribution.
Results
Induction and maintenance of tissue ischemia
A stable and pronounced hypoperfusion of the cranial region of gastric conduit was achieved after magnet compression after 120 min. The oxygenation index dropped from 65.1 ± 2.5% to 47.1 ± 8.2% and 49.7 ± 5.5% after 60 min. and 120 min., respectively (Fig. 2.). The hypoperfusion of the gastric conduit could be managed for the entire time of the experiment and remained stable at 48.4 ± 3.3% after 240 min in the control group (Fig. 2 and Table 1).
The tissue oxygenation depended on the level of applied negative pressure
Tissue oxygenation under EndoVAC therapy with − 40 mmHg pressure did not significantly improve after 60 and 120 min. The oxygenation index was not significantly changed from 46.3 ± 3.4% to 52.5 ± 4.3% (p = 0.26) and 53.9 ± 8.1% (p = 0.15), respectively. The oxygenation index did not return to the baseline level of 65.6 ± 4.3% (Fig. 3 and Table 1).
After EndoVAC therapy with − 125 mmHg a significant increase in the oxygenation index from 44.9 ± 7.6% to 61.9 ± 5.5% (p < 0.01) was seen after 60 min. After 120 min, the oxygenation level stayed stable at 62.9 ± 9.4% and was still significantly increased compared to tissue ischemia (p < 0.01) (Fig. 3 and Table 1).
A similar improvement was seen under the EndoVAC therapy with − 200 mmHg. The oxygenation index significantly increased from 41.7 ± 5.2% to 65.3 ± 3.1% (p < 0.0001) and 67.6 ± 3.4% (p < 0.0001) after 60 and 120 min, respectively, reaching nearly the baseline levels of 68.7 ± 3.7% (Fig. 3 and Table 1).
Corresponding changes in relative reflectance intensities were seen in the areas depicting the oxygenation status of the hemoglobin (wavelengths between 550 and 600 nm and above 700 nm) (Fig. 4).
Differences in oxygenation were detectable already during the initial phase of the EndoVAC therapy
Distinct differences in oxygenation during the initial treatment phase were observed after application of − 200 mmHg pressure. During the first 5 min, the oxygenation significantly increased from 55.2 ± 3.7% to 69.2 ± 8.7% (p = 0.02), and then decreased slightly but remained significantly elevated during the entire measurement period (Fig. 5).
EndoVAC therapy increased the water content of the tissue
A significant increase of tissue water content from 43.3 ± 7.4 to 56.1 ± 10.3 (p = 0.02) was observed after 60 min of EndoVAC therapy with − 200 mmHg. After 120 min of therapy with − 200 mmHg, there was a further increase in TWI from 56.1 ± 10.3 3 to 58.7 ± 15.4 (p = 0.006). The values after 120 min of EndoVAC therapy with − 200 mmHg were not significantly different from the baseline TWI of 55.5 ± 4.6 (p = 0.8). There were no significant differences in TWI under therapy with − 40 and − 125 mmHg (Supplementary Fig. 1. and Supplementary Table 1.). In the control group, there were also no significant changes in the TWI over the entire time of the experiment. The TWI varied over the time from 38.6 ± 12.1 to 44.2 ± 9.8 (p = 0.95) (Supplementary Fig. 2 and Supplementary Table 1).
Discussion
In the present study, we were able to show in a porcine in vivo model, that EndoVAC therapy of hypoperfused gastric conduit increased tissue oxygenation and perfusion at the affected site. Further, we observed that gradually increasing suction pressure had increasing positive effects on tissue oxygenation. Although there are no comparable studies in gastric conduit or esophagus, results from other areas show partially similar trends. The aforementioned trials by Morykwas et al. measured by laser Doppler velocimetry an increased blood flow upon VAC therapy of superficial wounds [26]. Further, Timmers et al. described, that the level of perfusion varied with the amount of negative pressure applied on the healthy skin of a forearm [37]. Too high negative pressure resulted in hypoperfusion of the tissue however. This phenomenon was not observed in our animal trial. On the contrary, the higher the negative pressure was, the more pronounced increase in oxygenation levels was observed in our experiment. However, the highest pressure available in our device was 200 mmHg, which is much lower than the highest negative pressure of 300 mmHg used by Timmers et al. Accordingly, other studies in animal models described that the application of negative pressure in the middle range of the scale, i.e., between 40 and 150 mmHg, had a positive influence on tissue perfusion, especially in the edge area of the wound [26, 38,39,40,41,42,43]. Our results are further supported by the evidence gathered by Ma et al. in a rat in vivo model of superficial diabetic wound. Ninety-six rats underwent either VAC or gauze treatment of a superficial leg wound. The results revealed that VAC therapy not only increased the blood flow perfusion in the wound area, but also promoted the overexpression of angiogenic factors and maturation of microvessels [44]. This would be interesting to also test in the animal model for gastric conduit with longer lasting experiments in a survival model in the future. However, all comparisons with other studies should be treated with caution, since both the measuring methods and the organs examined differed from these used in our experiment. A comparable study by Scott et al. in a porcine model of anastomotic leakage after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass demonstrated that the histological specimen from EndoVAC treated pigs had lesser degree of severe inflammation and no signs of necrosis or ischemia when compared with the control group [45]. Scott et al. was able to confirm these results also in a porcine model for esophagectomy [46] indirectly supporting our findings of improved tissue oxygenation upon EndoVAC therapy. Further, lower levels of inflammation do not appear to be directly related to bacterial clearance upon VAC therapy. In a prospective controlled trial of 54 patients with a full-thickness wound, no significant difference in total quantitative bacterial load was observed in the interventional group who underwent VAC therapy compared to control group [47]. Also, no changes in bioburden of the wounds upon VAC therapy were observed by Hu et al. despite improved wound healing [48]. Therefore, the action of VAC therapy on bacterial load may be secondary, to other benefits of VAC therapy, which is reflected in success rates in clinical practice. As shown by a recent meta-analysis of five retrospective studies, EndoVAC therapy of anastomotic leak after esophagectomy achieved better outcomes than endoscopically placed self-expandable metal stents (SEMS) alone [49]. These results demonstrated that EndoVAC therapy can be an effective alternative to SEMS for treating anastomotic leaks following esophagectomy. Anastomotic defects were successfully closed in 84–100% of cases treated with EndoVAC, but in only 54–64% after SEMS therapy [11, 15, 19, 50, 51]. After EndoVAC therapy, the likelihood of a successful closure was ninefold higher [49, 52].
Regarding the change in tissue edema, we did not find any comparable study. It can be assumed that our results are the first to provide insight into this field. An increase in Tissue Water Index is consistent with increased levels of tissue perfusion. Further, higher tissue perfusion may be more important than effects of improved venous and lymphatic drainage under EndoVAC therapy but this will have to be investigated in future studies with a longer observation period or a survival experiment. Moreover, in this study, due to technical limitations of the camera system, we were not able to directly examine the esophago-gastric anastomosis. Therefore, the specific influence of EndoVAC therapy on the esophagus remains to be evaluated in the future studies.
In conclusion, our study demonstrated an improved tissue oxygenation of ischemic gastric conduit with EndoVAC therapy with − 125 mg and − 200 mmHg. The changes in tissue edema were decent and detected solely under EndoVAC therapy with − 200 mmHg. This provides insight into pathophysiological mechanisms of EndoVAC therapy in the upper gastrointestinal system and paves the way for further investigations and translation into clinical practice.
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Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Devices and dressings were provided by Medela Medizintechnik GmbH & Co. Handels KG, Eching, Germany. Felix Nickel, Eleni Amelia Felinska, Alexander Studier-Fischer, Berkin Özdemir, Estelle Willuth, Philipp Anthony Wise and Beat Müller-Stich certify that they have no affiliations with or involvement in any organization or entity with any financial interest or non-financial interest in the subject matter or materials discussed in this manuscript.
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Supplementary Figure 1 Hyperspectral characterization of tissue water content. (A) The tissue water index (TWI) was measured upon induction of tissue ischemia and after the treatment therapy with with EndoVAC for 120 minutes with pressure of (A) -40 mmHg, (B) -125 mmHg and (C) -200 mmHg. A significant increase of tissue water content from 40.8 ± 7.4 to 59.5 ± 10.3 (p = 0.004) was observed after 60 minutes of EndoVAC therapy with therapy with -200 mmHg. (D+E) Corresponding hyperspectral images of TWI of the gastric conduit. The green and red areas correspond to a low and high TWI respectively. c, conduit; m, magnet; E, EndoVAC, white box indicates the region of interest.
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Supplementary Figure 2 Tissue edema during induction of tissue ischemia. In the control group tissue ischemia was maintained for the entire duration of the experiment. There were no significant changes in tissue water index (TWI) without EndoVAC therapy after 240 minutes. ns, not significant
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Felinska, E.A., Studier-Fischer, A., Özdemir, B. et al. Effects of endoluminal vacuum sponge therapy on the perfusion of gastric conduit in a porcine model for esophagectomy. Surg Endosc 38, 1422–1431 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00464-023-10647-0
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