Lack of correlation between failure of gut barrier function and septic complications after major upper gastrointestinal surgery

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 231, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 88-95

  Kanwar, Sunjay ^a   Windsor, Alistair C J W ^a   Welsh, Fenella ^a   Barclay, G Robin ^a   Guillou, Pierre J ^a   Reynolds, John V ^a,b  

^a ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE MUCOSA PERMEABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT;

ACUTE-PHASE REACTION; AGED; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; ENDOTOXINS; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033958387     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-200001000-00013     Document Type: Article

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