Perioperative synbiotic treatment to prevent infectious complications in patients after elective living donor liver transplantation: a prospective randomized study
S Eguchi, M Takatsuki, M Hidaka, A Soyama… - The American journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Although the effect of synbiotic therapy using prebiotics and probiotics has
been reported in hepatobiliary surgery, there are no reports of the effect on elective living-
donor liver transplantation (LDLT). METHODS: Fifty adult patients undergoing LDLT
between September 2005 and June 2009 were randomized into a group receiving 2 days of
preoperative and 2 weeks of postoperative synbiotic therapy (Bifidobacterium breve,
Lactobacillus casei, and galactooligosaccharides [the BLO group]) and a group without …
been reported in hepatobiliary surgery, there are no reports of the effect on elective living-
donor liver transplantation (LDLT). METHODS: Fifty adult patients undergoing LDLT
between September 2005 and June 2009 were randomized into a group receiving 2 days of
preoperative and 2 weeks of postoperative synbiotic therapy (Bifidobacterium breve,
Lactobacillus casei, and galactooligosaccharides [the BLO group]) and a group without …