Effect of systemic corticosteroids on elective left-sided colorectal resection with colorectal anastomosis

Treatment with corticosteroids and the risk of anastomotic leakage following lower gastrointestinal surgery: a literature survey

“…Only Tresallét et al . and Vignali et al . reported the mean dosage of corticosteroids used (10 mg/day and 30 mg/day, respectively).…”

“…The types of anastomoses were ileoileal, ileocolic, ileorectal, colocolic or colorectal, and only two studies included IPAA . Four studies included only colocolic and/or colorectal anastomoses (Table ) .…”

Identification of Risk Factors for Esophagojejunal Anastomotic Leakage after Gastric Surgery

“…Although some reports have showed that systemic steroid administration significantly impaired healing of intestinal anastomoses [20,21], others did not find any increased rate of associated anastomotic leakage [22,23]. In the present study the number of patients who were treated with steroids was too small to investigate the relationship between EJA leakage and steroid administration.…”

Predicting the Risk of Anastomotic Leakage in Left-sided Colorectal Surgery Using a Colon Leakage Score

“…Our search of the literature resulted in a total of 221 studies, of which 64 were eligible for inclusion [53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68]. Consensus was reached on inclusion of risk factors and their relative weight after four iterations.…”