ALB and malnutrition: This result remained significant when the preoperative albumin level was evaluated as a continuous variable.[24] Using data from an electronic hospital-based surgical morbidity database, Garg et al conducted a study on radical cystectomies performed in patients with BUC and found that the risk of complications and mortality increased when the serum albumin level decreased.[25] In all of these studies, malnutrition was considered the primary reason for the high rate of postoperative complications.