Surgical manipulation of the large intestine increases bacterial translocation in patients undergoing elective colorectal surgery

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 596-600

  Reddy, B S ^a   Gatt, M ^a   Sowdi, R ^a   Macfie, John ^a,b  

^a SCARBOROUGH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacterial translocation; Colorectal surgery; Gut barrier function; Gut origin of sepsis; Mesenteric lymph node sampling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; BACTEROIDES; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLON MOTILITY; COLON POLYPOSIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE FUNCTION; INTESTINE INFECTION; INTESTINE MUCOSA PERMEABILITY; INTESTINE SURGERY; KLEBSIELLA; LACTOBACILLUS; LAPAROTOMY; LIGATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MESENTERY LYMPH NODE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PERMEABILITY BARRIER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS; PSEUDOMONAS; RECTUM ADENOMA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURGICAL PATIENT; TISSUE CULTURE; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; VILLOUS ADENOMA;

AGED; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE;

EID: 33747050359     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: 14631318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1318.2006.01024.x     Document Type: Article

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