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

Table 6 Mediastinal leakage and mortality rates: Multicenter study on mediastinal leaks and other studies

	Patients	Mortality rates		Leakage rates	Leak-related mortality rates
Price’s in 2013	268	3.71		5.9
Dent et al[28] 2016	377	01		7.2	0
Van Daele et al[9] 2016	412			2.9
Guo et al[15] 2014	1867			1.8	18.2
		30-d	90-d		30-d	90-d
Rutegård et al[8] 20122	559		6.2	7.9
Kassis et al[16] 20133	1559	3.6		9.3
MuMeLe study4	501	1.4	3.2	11.8	5.0	15.3

¹Operative mortality rate;

²Multicenter prospective study;

³Multicenter retrospective study;

⁴Multicenter retrospective study. MuMeLe: Multicenter study on mediastinal leaks.