Maarten van Egmond

35 Preoperative functional status and postoperative complications 2 Despite the fact that our study does not show an association between preoperative functional status and POC, we would recommend comparing the association between preoperative functional status and postoperative functional recovery in esophagectomy patients with and without POC. This might answer the question whether people with a high initial preoperative functional status will recover faster in case they develop a POC.