Perioperative Synbiotic Treatment to Prevent Infectious Complications in Patients After Elective Living Donor Liver Transplantation: a Prospective Randomized Study

Overview

Journal Am J Surg

Specialty General Surgery

Date 2010 Jul 13

PMID 20619394

Citations 34

Authors

Susumu Eguchi

Mitsuhisa Takatsuki

Masaaki Hidaka

Akihiko Soyama

Tatsuki Ichikawa

Takashi Kanematsu

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Abstract

Background: Although the effect of synbiotic therapy using prebiotics and probiotics has been reported in hepatobiliary surgery, there are no reports of the effect on elective living-donor liver transplantation (LDLT).

Methods: Fifty adult patients undergoing LDLT between September 2005 and June 2009 were randomized into a group receiving 2 days of preoperative and 2 weeks of postoperative synbiotic therapy (Bifidobacterium breve, Lactobacillus casei, and galactooligosaccharides [the BLO group]) and a group without synbiotic therapy (the control group). Postoperative infectious complications were recorded as well as fecal microflora before and after LDLT in each group.

Results: Only 1 systemic infection occurred in the BLO group (4%), whereas the control group showed 6 infectious complications (24%), with 3 cases of sepsis and 3 urinary tract infections with Enterococcus spp (P = .033 vs BLO group). No other type of complication showed any difference between the groups.

Conclusions: Infectious complications after elective LDLT significantly decreased with the perioperative administration of synbiotic therapy.

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