RT - Journal
TY - JOUR
A1 - Elsisy, Alaa Abd
A1 - Hagag, Mahmoud
A1 - Ewida, Marwan
T1 - The effect of peritoneal lavage with a mixture of lincomycin–gentamicin on postoperative infection in cases of colorectal cancer surgery
YR - 2017/4/1
JF - Menoufia Medical Journal
JO - Menoufia Med J
SP - 393
OP - 399
VO - 30
IS - 2
UL - http://www.mmj.eg.net/article.asp?issn=1110-2098;year=2017;volume=30;issue=2;spage=393;epage=399;aulast=Elsisy;t=5
DO - 10.4103/1110-2098.215454
N2 - Objective
The aim of this work was to evaluate the effect of the use of antibiotic solution formed of lincomycin and gentamycin in normal saline in decreasing the risk for postoperative infection in cases of colorectal cancer.
Background
Infection after colon cancer operations is still the most common and the most serious complication, with an incidence of more than 30%.
Patients and methods
This study was carried out on 40 randomly allocated patients with resectable colon and rectal cancer. Group 1 included patients who underwent intra-abdominal lavage with normal saline, followed by a second lavage with a gentamicin–lincomycin solution, and group 2 included those who underwent lavage with normal saline.
Results
There was a significant difference between groups as regards the presence of postoperative wound sepsis. Isolated organisms were mainly gram negative in both groups. In group 1, the isolated organism was Pseudomonas. In group 2, three cases were diagnosed with Escherichia coli and two cases for each of Pseudomonas, Klebsiella, and Enterobacter. Intraoperative abscess was diagnosed in three cases, two in group 2 and the remaining one in group 1. There was no significant difference between groups as regards the presence of intra-abdominal abscess.
Conclusion
Antibiotic lavage of the peritoneum is associated with a lower incidence of intra-abdominal abscesses and wound infection. A normal saline lavage did not significantly reduce the number of positive cultures, in contrast to an antibiotic one (gentamicin–lincoamycin), which resulted in negative cultures in 90% of the cases.
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