Systematic review of the definition and measurement of anastomotic leak after gastrointestinal surgery

By J. Bruce, Z. Krukowski, G. Al-Khairy, E. Russell, K. G. Park. British Journal of Surgery, 2001

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Subfields: Oncology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Surgery

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• Postoperative pancreatic fistula: an international study group (ISGPF) definition. (2005, neutral): “Currently among high-volume centers, the mortality rate after pancreatic resection has decreased to less than 5%, but the morbidity remains high, ranging from 30% to 50%.(3-51) Postoperative pancreatic fistula (POPF) has been regarded traditionally as the most frequent major complication and is a po”
• Bile leakage after hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery: a definition and grading of severity by the International Study Group of Liver Surgery. (2011, background): “This finding is in accordance with a systematic review published in 2001 that demonstrated a lack of universally accepted definitions of anastomotic leak after various kinds of gastrointestinal operations.(29) Most definitions identified by our literature search applied various cut-off levels of bil”
• Quality of Complication Reporting in the Surgical Literature (2002, background): “A recent and detailed review of anastomotic leak after gastrointestinal surgery studied 97 reports from 1993 to 1999 that provided definitions of upper gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary, or lower gastrointestinal anastomotic leaks.(123) The 56 definitions analyzed in this review highlight the variabil”
• Definition and grading of anastomotic leakage following anterior resection of the rectum: a proposal by the International Study Group of Rectal Cancer. (2010, background): “Grade A anastomotic leakage results in no change in the patients clinical management and is consistent with the radiologic leakage described by others.(23,34,48-54) Our proposal assesses the perioperative period primarily.”
• Defunctioning Stoma Reduces Symptomatic Anastomotic Leakage After Low Anterior Resection of the Rectum for Cancer: A Randomized Multicenter Trial (2007, background): “Late leakages may have a tendency to be underdiagnosed, or even underreported, as indicated in one meta-analysis.(24) In the present study, the randomized patients had preoperative radiotherapy more often than the nonrandomized patients (79.”
• Classification of Surgical Complications: A New Proposal With Evaluation in a Cohort of 6336 Patients and Results of a Survey (2004, result): “A recent study reviewing the definition of anastomotic leakage after gastrointestinal surgery would support this concept.(20) The authors identified 56 different definitions of anastomotic leaks in 97 publications, making comparison among the studies impossible.”
• Anastomotic Leaks After Intestinal Anastomosis: It's Later Than You Think (2007, background): “” Bruce et al performed a systematic review of studies measuring the incidence of anastomotic leaks after gastrointestinal surgery; in the 97 studies reviewed, there were a total of 56 separate definitions of anastomotic leak.(15) A leak may be defined by the need for reoperation, clinical findings,”