Objective The purpose of this article is to review and integrate the available literature in
different fields to gain a better understanding of the basic physiology and optimize vascular …

Purpose Anastomotic leakage is associated with increased morbidity and mortality.
However, there is no accurate tool to predict its occurrence. We evaluated the predictive …

Common gastrointestinal diseases such as radiation enteritis (RE), acute pancreatitis,
inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) and drug-induced hepatotoxicity share …

Thousands of articles have been published on the topic of ischemic conditioning.
Nevertheless, relatively little attention has been given to assessment of conditioning's dose …

Purpose Patients undergoing laparoscopic colorectal cancer resection have a high
incidence of postoperative gastrointestinal dysfunction (POGD). Remote ischemic …

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of melatonin
on intestinal anastomosis after intestinal ischemia/reperfusion injury (IRI). METHODS: Thirty …

BACKGROUND: To explore new methods for intraoperative evaluation of tissue
oxygenation, we evaluated the use of visible light spectroscopy as a predictor of anastomotic …

Background The effect of remote pre-and postconditioning on anastomotic healing has been
sparsely studied. The aim of our study was to investigate whether remote ischemic …

This study was designed to determine the effects of intraperitoneally or orally administered N-
acetylcysteine (NAC) on wound healing following resection and anastomosis of a colon …

Skin wounds may lead to scar formation and impaired functionality. Remote ischemic
preconditioning (RIPC) can induce the anti-inflammatory enzyme heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) …