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ReviewFrontiers in pharmacology2024

Effects of perioperative steroid use on surgical stress and prognosis in patients undergoing hepatectomy: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

Furui Zhong, Hua Yang, Xuefeng Peng, Kerui Zeng

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Review in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Furui ZhongDepartment of General Surgery, Zigong Fourth People's Hospital, Zigong, Sichuan, China.
Hua YangDepartment of General Surgery, Zigong Fourth People's Hospital, Zigong, Sichuan, China.
Xuefeng PengDepartment of General Surgery, Zigong Fourth People's Hospital, Zigong, Sichuan, China.
Kerui ZengDepartment of General Surgery, Zigong Fourth People's Hospital, Zigong, Sichuan, China.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The objective of this study was to evaluate the clinical effects of perioperative steroid hormone usage in hepatectomy patients through a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis. Prospective randomized controlled trials (RCTs) investigating the perioperative use of steroid hormones in hepatectomy patients were systematically searched using various databases, including PubMed, Medline, Embase, the Cochrane Library, the Chinese Biomedical Literature Database, Wanfang Data, and the CNKI database. Two researchers independently screened and extracted data from selected studies. Data analysis was performed using RevMan 5.3 software. The results revealed significantly lower levels of total bilirubin (standard mean difference [SMD] = -0.7; 95% CI: -1.23 to -0.18; and

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hepatectomymeta-analysisprognosissteroidsurgical stress

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PMID39281283
PMCPMC11393686

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