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Original Research

Clinical Values of Preoperative Use of Antibiotics in Transanal Endoscopic Microsurgery

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Pages 548-554 | Received 31 Mar 2017, Accepted 13 Jul 2017, Published online: 22 Aug 2017
 

ABSTRACT

Objective. To investigate the clinical values of preoperative use of antibiotics in transanal endoscopic microsurgery (TEM). Methods: Thirty patients undergoing TEM surgery to treat rectal neoplasms in our hospital were selected in this study. All patients were randomly divided into two groups: antibiotic group that antibiotics were used before and after surgery, and control group that antibiotics were only used after surgery. Several markers were evaluated before and after surgery in all patients, including erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), C-reactive protein (CRP), changes procalcitonin (PCT), white blood cell count (WBC), neutrophils (NE%) and temperature (T). Results: The patients in the antibiotic group at the first and third days after surgery showed lower values of ESR, CRP, WBC, NE% and T than the control group (p < 0.05), furthermore, the WBC and NE% were significantly decreased at the third day after surgery compared with the first day after surgery. For the PCT, there was a significant difference in the first day after surgery between the two groups (p < 0.05), but no significant difference was observed between them at the third day after surgery (p > 0.05). Conclusion: The preoperative use of antibiotics in TEM surgery to treat rectal neoplasms may become an effective method to reduce inflammation and prevent infecting after surgery, which will be verified by an amount of studies on large sample.

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The Use of Antibiotics Before Transanal Endoscopic Microsurgery

Conflict of Interests

There are no conflicts of interest for any author.

Acknowledgment

A grant from the project of Science and Technology Development of Jinan city (No. 201602177) supported this study.

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