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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Selivanov, V
• Sheldon, G F

Titel

Effect of abdominal operations on survival after septic challenge in normal rats

Ist Teil von

• Archives of surgery (Chicago. 1960), 1984-01, Vol.119 (1), p.71

Ort / Verlag

United States

Erscheinungsjahr

1984

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We evaluated the effect of 60% small-bowel enterectomy that removed 75% of Peyer's patches, and the effects of lesser abdominal operations, on the survival of rats following inducement of peritonitis. We divided 286 female Fischer rats weighing 140 to 200 g into four experimental and two control groups. Following enterectomy, rats recovered for ten to 14 days before peritonitis was induced by intraperitoneal injection of 0.7 mL/100 g of body weight of a solution of 4% hemoglobin and Escherichia coli (10(9)/mL). At 48 hours after enterectomy, the survival rate was better than that in rats not operated on or anesthetized. Survival rates for rats having lesser intra-abdominal operations were significantly greater after peritonitis than the rates for controls, but were similar to rates for rats having enterectomies. Our results suggest that intra-abdominal operation of minimal or large magnitude is associated with improved survival from hemoglobin-E coli adjuvant peritonitis.