Marco Catarci, Stefano Guadagni, Francesco Masedu, Giacomo Ruffo, Massimo Giuseppe Viola, Felice Borghi, Gianluca Garulli, Felice Pirozzi, Paolo Delrio, Raffaele De Luca, Gianandrea Baldazzi, Marco Scatizzi
BACKGROUND: Current evidence concerning bowel preparation before elective colorectal surgery is still controversial. This study aimed to compare the incidence of anastomotic leakage (AL), surgical site infections (SSIs), and overall morbidity (any adverse event, OM) after elective colorectal surgery using four different types of bowel preparation. METHODS: A prospective database gathered among 78 Italian surgical centers in two prospective studies, including 6241 patients who underwent elective colorectal resection with anastomosis for malignant or benign disease, was re-analyzed through a multi-treatment machine-learning model considering no bowel preparation (NBP; No...
April 16, 2024: International Journal of Colorectal Disease