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ReviewJournal of personalized medicine2023

Probiotics in Postoperative Pain Management.

Barbara Fyntanidou, Aikaterini Amaniti, Eleftheria Soulioti, Sofia-Chrysovalantou Zagalioti, Sofia Gkarmiri, Angeliki Chorti, Lamprini Loukipoudi, Aris Ioannidis, Ioannis Dalakakis, Alexandra-Eleftheria Menni and 2 more

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Review in Journal of personalized medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
3.0field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Gut microbiota-mediated pain sensitization: mechanisms and therapeutic implications.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Barbara FyntanidouDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54636 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Aikaterini AmanitiDepartment of Anesthesia & Intensive Care, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54636 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Eleftheria SouliotiSecond Department of Anesthesiology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Attikon University Hospital, 12462 Athens, Greece.
Sofia-Chrysovalantou ZagaliotiDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54636 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-6371-1251
Sofia GkarmiriDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54636 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Angeliki ChortiDepartment of Surgery, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54636 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Lamprini LoukipoudiDepartment of Anesthesia & Intensive Care, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54636 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Aris IoannidisDepartment of Surgery, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54636 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Ioannis DalakakisDepartment of Anesthesia & Intensive Care, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54636 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Alexandra-Eleftheria MenniDepartment of Surgery, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54636 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Anne D ShrewsburyDepartment of Surgery, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54636 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Katerina KotzampassiDepartment of Surgery, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54636 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-0241-7216
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki · GRNational and Kapodistrian University of Athens · GR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Postoperative pain is the unpleasant sensory and emotional experience after surgery, its origin being both the inflammatory reaction induced by the surgical trauma on the abdominal wall and the splanchnic pain induced by the activation of nociceptors of the viscera, which are highly sensitive to distension, ischemia, and inflammation. Nowadays, it is well recognized that there is a close relationship between the gut microbiome and pain perception, and that microbiome is highly affected by both anesthesia and surgical manipulation. Thus, efforts to restore the disturbed microbiome via supplementation with beneficial bacteria, namely probiotics, seem to be effective. In this article, the knowledge gained mainly from experimental research on this topic is analyzed, the concluding message being that each probiotic strain works in its own way towards pain relief.

Indexed as

abdominal wall paincannabinoidsinflammationmicrobiomeopioidspostoperative painprobioticsvisceral pain

Identifiers

PMID38138872
PMCPMC10745134
OpenAlexW4389050439

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