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The preoperative abundance of Prevotella associates with anastomotic healing after colorectal surgery.

2021-10-26 surgery Title + abstract only
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Anastomotic leakage (AL) is a frequent and potentially life-threatening postoperative complication in patients undergoing colorectal surgery with a multifactorial yet unknown pathophysiology. In the present study, we aimed to unravel AL etiology and intestinal anastomotic healing (AH) physiology focusing on both host epithelial and gut microbial components. We make use of patients-related samples and two high throughput next generation sequencing analysis approaches, including anastomotic tissue...

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