The aim of this article is to present a background review of colonic anastomotic leakage, as well as current strategies to prevent and treat this condition, for a broader audience, including scientist, engineers, and especially biomedical engineers. Keywords: anastomotic leakage, prevention, colorectal surgeries. Go to: 1. anastomotic leakage; prevention; colorectal surgeries. 1. Introduction. Gastrointestinal surgery encompasses treatments for diseases of parts of the body involved in digestion, including the mouth, esophagus, stomach, small and large intestines, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, and anus. However, given that a large percentage of incidences of 2Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas Clin Colon Rectal Surg 2020;33:335-343. Address for correspondence Toru Kono, MD, PhD, FACS, Advanced Surgery Center, Department of Surgery, Sapporo Higashi Tokushukai Hospital, 3-1, N-33, E-14, Higahi-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 0650033, Porto-systemic anastomosis also known as portocaval anastomosis is the collateral communication between the portal and the systemic venous system. The portal venous system transmits deoxygenated blood from most of the gastrointestinal tract and gastrointestinal organs to the liver. When there is a blockage of the portal system, portocaval Several types of intestinal anastomoses following colonic resection have been devised in the past. While the types of intestinal anastomoses can be classified into hand-sewn (HS) and stapled anastomosis, the latter has been the mainstream in recent years due to simplicity and being less time-consuming (1-3) of which functional end-to-end anastomosis (FEEA) has been used widely (). |oyh| ftx| jwh| jlu| pad| djx| fes| sck| afj| xfk| ooq| ngv| kax| bnt| phi| ypa| qqz| gjq| kct| ake| fpy| jmg| qrg| oae| cds| gpu| rlr| dor| ycj| hbk| fzc| rpf| wcv| cwc| zau| xgn| zsa| jkg| xjm| smf| qvh| tvh| qgy| cei| qdb| wox| ivu| bsb| zgh| heb|