Clinical Study
Preoperative Nutritional Therapy Reduces the Risk of Anastomotic Leakage in Patients with Crohn’s Disease Requiring Resections
Table 1
Patients characteristics.
| | Baseline features | Non-NT group () | NT group () | value | | (%) | (%) |
| | Age (years) | 33.3 ± 10.1 | 32.6 ± 10.8 | 0.734 | | Gender (male/female) | 53/13 (80.3/19.7) | 39/18 (68.4/31.6) | 0.149 | | Body mass index (kg/m2) | 17.8 ± 3.4 | 18.4 ± 4.6 | 0.409 | | Active smoker | 23 (34.8) | 25 (43.9) | 0.356 | | Duration of CD (years) | 8.1 ± 6.1 | 8.3 ± 7.4 | 0.870 | | Disease location | | | 0.644 | | L1 (ileum) | 11 (16.7) | 13 (22.8) | | | L2 (colonic) | 9 (13.6) | 5 (8.8) | | | L3 (ileocolonic) | 42 (63.6) | 34 (59.6) | | | L4 (upper GI) + L1 | 2 (3.0) | 1 (1.8) | | | L4 + L3 | 2 (3.0) | 4 (7.0) | | | Behavior | | | 0.74 | | B2 (stricturing) | 25 (37.9) | 19 (33.3) | | | B3 (fistulizing) | 41 (62.1) | 38 (66.7) | | | Previous intestinal resection | 6 (9.1) | 3 (5.3) | 0.502 | | Preoperative corticosteroids | 12 (18.2) | 9 (15.8) | 0.812 | | Preoperative azathioprine or TWP | 31 (47.0) | 26 (45.6) | 1.0 | | Serum CRP before preoperative management | 43.7 ± 30.2 mg/L | 40.2 ± 32.7 mg/L | 0.539 | | Serum albumin before preoperative management | 36.1 ± 8.1 g/L | 35.8 ± 7.7 g/L | 0.834 |
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, number of surgeries; TWP, Tripterygium wilfordii Hook. F.
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