Laparoscopic Surgery Of The Colon Reduces The Risk Of Venous Thrombosis

Laparoscopic Surgery Of The Colon Reduces The Risk Of Venous Thrombosis.
Minimally invasive colon surgery reduces the jeopardy of blood clots in the recondite veins compared with conventional surgery, University of California, Irvine, researchers report. Deep deposit blood clots, called venous thromboembolism (VTE), occur in about a mercifulness of patients who have colorectal surgery, the researchers said. The benefits of less invasive laparoscopic surgery also number faster recovery time and a smaller scar, but these advantages may not be enough to bring about a widespread flog from traditional surgery.

And "From the cancer perspective, this does not appear to be a game changer," said Dr Durado Brooks, impresario of colorectal cancer at the American Cancer Society. Brooks said that surrounded by cancer patients in the study, no significant difference in the risk of VTE was found between the two procedures.

So "In addition, cancer had been viewed as a contraindication for laparoscopic surgery. There needs to be a more focused turn over looking exclusively at the cancer residents before anyone would promote laparoscopic surgery as the way to go for cancer patients". The clock in was published in the June issue of the Archives of Surgery.