Postoperative peridual analgesia increases the strength of colonic contractions without impairing anastomotic healing in rats

International Journal of Colorectal Disease

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 50-54

  Jansen, Marc ^a   Lynen Jansen, Petra ^a   Junge, Karsten ^a   Anurov, Michael ^b   Titkova, Svetlana ^b   Öttinger, Alexander ^b   Schumpelick, Volker ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b PIROGOV RUSSIAN NATIONAL RESEARCH MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Anastomotic healing; Colonic motility; Peridual analgesia; Postoperative; Ropivacaine

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 1; KETAMINE; KETANEST; ROPIVACAINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; XYLAZINE; AMIDE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; COLON ANASTOMOSIS; COLON MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EXPERIMENTAL SURGERY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; ILEUS; INTESTINE CONTRACTION; INTESTINE MOTILITY; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; NONHUMAN; PERIODICITY; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ANASTOMOSIS; ANIMAL; COLON; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; MUSCLE ISOTONIC CONTRACTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; TIME; WISTAR RAT; WOUND HEALING;

AMIDES; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; COLON; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; ISOTONIC CONTRACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TIME FACTORS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0038480617     PISSN: 01791958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00384-002-0395-6     Document Type: Article

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