ArticleSurgery today2017
Is routine abdominal drainage necessary after liver resection?
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Systematic review and meta-analysis of the efficacy of prophylactic abdominal drainage in major liver resections.Scientific reports · 2021Pooled it
- The effect of placing prophylactic abdominal drainage tube after hepatobiliary surgery on postoperative infection: A systematic review and meta-analysis.International wound journal · 2024Article
- Is Prophylactic Cervical Drainage Effective in Patients Undergoing McKeown Esophagectomy Reconstructed Through the Retrosternal Route with Two-Field Lymphadenectomy?World journal of surgery · 2022Article
- Effect of pelvic drain displacement on anastomotic leakage-related morbidity after rectal cancer surgery.Journal of minimally invasive surgery · 2021Article
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- No Benefit of Prophylactic Surgical Drainage in Combined Liver and Kidney Transplantation: Our Experience and Review of the Literature.Frontiers in surgery · 2021Article
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- The safety of omitting prophylactic abdominal drainage after laparoscopic liver resection: Retrospective analysis of 100 consecutive cases.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2020Article
- [Drainages in abdominal surgery: (in)dispensable?]Der Chirurg; Zeitschrift fur alle Gebiete der operativen Medizen · 2017Review
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Abstract
purposeProphylactic abdominal drainage is performed routinely after liver resection in many centers. The aim of this study was to examine the safety and validity of liver resection without abdominal drainage and to clarify whether routine abdominal drainage after liver resection is necessary.
methodsPatients who underwent elective liver resection without bilio-enteric anastomosis between July, 2006 and June, 2012 were divided into two groups, based on whether surgery was performed before or after, we adopted the no-drain strategy. The "former group" comprised 256 patients operated on between July, 2006 and June, 2009 and the "latter group" comprised 218 patients operated between July, 2009 and June, 2012. We compared the postoperative complications, percutaneous drainage, and postoperative hospital stay between the groups, retrospectively.
resultsThere were no significant differences in the rates of postoperative bleeding, intraabdominal infection, or bile leakage between the groups. Drain insertion after liver resection did not reduce the rate of percutaneous drainage. Postoperative hospital stay was significantly shorter in the latter group.
conclusionRoutine abdominal drainage is unnecessary after liver resection without bilio-enteric anastomosis.
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