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19274909

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-3-11
pubmed:abstractText
Mechanical bowel preparation (MBP) is commonly used for preparing patients before elective colorectal surgery. MBP has long been considered indispensable for the prevention of complications, especially of the infectious ones. There is little scientific evidence demonstrating the efficiency of this practice in reducing the rate of infectious complications. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of MBP in colorectal surgery. A prospective non randomized study analyzed 99 patients divided into two groups (60 with and 39 without MBP) which underwent colonic surgery finished with anastomosis. Anastomotic fistulas rate was 5% in the group with MBP and 2.5% in the one without MBP, parietal suppuration appeared in 15% of the patients with MBP and in 15% of those without MBP. There was a single intraperitoneal abscess in the group with MBP. Recent randomised clinical studies evaluating MBP in elective colorectal surgery were unable to show its benefits or real effects when compared with the operations without preparation. Colorectal surgery without MBP can be safely performed having the same or even better results than the one with MBP.
pubmed:language
rum
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1221-9118
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
103
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
651-8
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
[Evaluation of efficacy of mechanical bowel preparation in colorectal surgery].
pubmed:affiliation
Departamentul de Chirurgie, Spitalul Elias, Bucure?ti. dramiron@yahoo.com
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract, Controlled Clinical Trial