PMID: 8948805Sep 1, 1995Paper

Significance of antibiotic prophylaxis in infection prevention in biliary surgery. Personal experience

Annali italiani di chirurgia
F ZuccariniN Picardi

Abstract

Postoperative infections are one of the most frequent causes of morbidity in surgical patients. In biliary tract surgery the risk of septic complications is essentially increased by opening the bile ducts. Aim of this paper is to evaluate indications and effectiveness of short-term prophylaxis in preventing infective complications of biliary surgery. Authors report a personal six years review regarding 530 patients operated for biliary tract diseases. The patients were divided into two groups: the first one (n. 245) operated under short-term prophylaxis; the second one (n. 285) treated only postoperativelly with antibiotics. The results obtained show a significatively higher rate of infective complications in the second group of patients. There is a little difference between the groups in the case of elective cholecystectomy, whereas there is a great difference in case of non-elective surgery, bile ducts opening, external biliary drainages placement or sphincteropapillotomy. Authors furthermore emphasize how surgical results are conditioned by individual risk factors, especially obesity and diabetes.

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