Prophylactic drains in totally laparoscopic distal gastrectomy: are they always necessary?

Prophylactic drains have always been a useful tool to detect early complications and prevent postoperative fluid collections, particularly in gastrointestinal surgery. Recently, the utilization of such drains has been debated, due to mounting evidence that they could be harmful rather than beneficia...

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Autores principales: Manzia, Tommaso Maria, Parente, Alessandro, Angelico, Roberta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2022
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8771612/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35110957
http://dx.doi.org/10.3748/wjg.v28.i3.399
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author Manzia, Tommaso Maria
Parente, Alessandro
Angelico, Roberta
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description Prophylactic drains have always been a useful tool to detect early complications and prevent postoperative fluid collections, particularly in gastrointestinal surgery. Recently, the utilization of such drains has been debated, due to mounting evidence that they could be harmful rather than beneficial. Based on recent published articles, Liu et al reported that the routine use of prophylactic drains in total laparoscopic distal gastrectomy might not be necessary for all patients. Herein, we express our opinion regarding this interesting publication.
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spelling pubmed-87716122022-02-01 Prophylactic drains in totally laparoscopic distal gastrectomy: are they always necessary? Manzia, Tommaso Maria Parente, Alessandro Angelico, Roberta World J Gastroenterol Letter to the Editor Prophylactic drains have always been a useful tool to detect early complications and prevent postoperative fluid collections, particularly in gastrointestinal surgery. Recently, the utilization of such drains has been debated, due to mounting evidence that they could be harmful rather than beneficial. Based on recent published articles, Liu et al reported that the routine use of prophylactic drains in total laparoscopic distal gastrectomy might not be necessary for all patients. Herein, we express our opinion regarding this interesting publication. Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2022-01-21 2022-01-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8771612/ /pubmed/35110957 http://dx.doi.org/10.3748/wjg.v28.i3.399 Text en ©The Author(s) 2022. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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Manzia, Tommaso Maria
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Prophylactic drains in totally laparoscopic distal gastrectomy: are they always necessary?
title Prophylactic drains in totally laparoscopic distal gastrectomy: are they always necessary?
title_full Prophylactic drains in totally laparoscopic distal gastrectomy: are they always necessary?
title_fullStr Prophylactic drains in totally laparoscopic distal gastrectomy: are they always necessary?
title_full_unstemmed Prophylactic drains in totally laparoscopic distal gastrectomy: are they always necessary?
title_short Prophylactic drains in totally laparoscopic distal gastrectomy: are they always necessary?
title_sort prophylactic drains in totally laparoscopic distal gastrectomy: are they always necessary?
topic Letter to the Editor
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8771612/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35110957
http://dx.doi.org/10.3748/wjg.v28.i3.399
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