Is preoperative bowel preparation always superfluous?

Salomone Di Saverio¹, Mauro Podda², Gianluca Pellino³, Antonino Spinelli⁴, Justin R Davies⁵

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¹ Cambridge Colorectal Unit, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals National Health Service Foundation Trust, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK. Electronic address: salo75@inwind.it.
² Department of Surgery, Emergency Surgery Unit, Cagliari University Hospital, Policlinico D Casula, Cagliari, Italy.
³ Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, The University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Napoli, Italy; Colorectal Unit, Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain.
⁴ Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy; Colon and Rectal Surgery Unit, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center IRCCS, Milan, Italy.
⁵ Cambridge Colorectal Unit, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals National Health Service Foundation Trust, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK.

PMID: 32145788
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30027-1

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Is preoperative bowel preparation always superfluous?

Salomone Di Saverio et al. Lancet. 2020.

. 2020 Mar 7;395(10226):781-782.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30027-1.

Authors

Salomone Di Saverio¹, Mauro Podda², Gianluca Pellino³, Antonino Spinelli⁴, Justin R Davies⁵

Affiliations

¹ Cambridge Colorectal Unit, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals National Health Service Foundation Trust, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK. Electronic address: salo75@inwind.it.
² Department of Surgery, Emergency Surgery Unit, Cagliari University Hospital, Policlinico D Casula, Cagliari, Italy.
³ Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, The University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Napoli, Italy; Colorectal Unit, Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain.
⁴ Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy; Colon and Rectal Surgery Unit, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center IRCCS, Milan, Italy.
⁵ Cambridge Colorectal Unit, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals National Health Service Foundation Trust, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK.

PMID: 32145788
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30027-1

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Department of Error.
[No authors listed] [No authors listed] Lancet. 2020 Jun 20;395(10241):1906. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31320-9. Lancet. 2020. PMID: 32563376 No abstract available.

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Is preoperative bowel preparation always superfluous? - Authors' reply.
Koskenvuo L, Sallinen V. Koskenvuo L, et al. Lancet. 2020 Mar 7;395(10226):782. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30026-X. Lancet. 2020. PMID: 32145790 No abstract available.

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Mechanical and oral antibiotic bowel preparation versus no bowel preparation for elective colectomy (MOBILE): a multicentre, randomised, parallel, single-blinded trial.
Koskenvuo L, Lehtonen T, Koskensalo S, Rasilainen S, Klintrup K, Ehrlich A, Pinta T, Scheinin T, Sallinen V. Koskenvuo L, et al. Lancet. 2019 Sep 7;394(10201):840-848. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(19)31269-3. Epub 2019 Aug 8. Lancet. 2019. PMID: 31402112 Clinical Trial.

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