The impact of the nutritional state of patients on the results of the surgical treatment of crohn’s disease

• Authors: Urszula Skowrońska-Piekarska , Konrad Matysiak , Anna Sowińska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Crohn’s disease (CD) patients are qualified for surgery in the acute phase of the disease or after ineffective medical therapy. The course of the disease and the medical treatment received to that point weaken the general state of patients, with that they also cause undernutrition.The aim of the study was the assessment of the nutritional state of 168 CD patients, admitted for surgery and the evaluation of the influence of this state on the postoperative course.Material and methods. We referred the results of the nutritional state assessment to the time of the postoperative hospitalization of patients.Results. Applying the Kruskal-Wallis test we found statistically significant, but weakly expressed, differences between the values of nutritional state parameters and period of hospitalization of patients. The applied U Mann-Whitney test, with statistically significant results with p <0.05, showed that no one parameter of the nutritional state of patients expressed a statistically significant difference between dead and recovered groups.Conclusions. We propose the body mass loss in the 6 months period before admission, TLC and serum albumin level as parameters which well detect undernutrition in CD patients presenting for surgery

Keywords

EN

Crohn’s disease; nutritional assessment; undernutrition; surgery; length of hospitalisation

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Polish Journal of Surgery
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 85
• Issue: 7
• Pages: 361-370

Dates

published

1 - 07 - 2013

online

13 - 08 - 2013

Contributors

author

Urszula Skowrońska-Piekarska

• Department of General Surgery, Oncological Gastroenterology, and Plastic Surgery, Medical University in Poznań, Kierownik: prof. dr hab. M. Drews
• 60-355 Poznań, ul. Przybyszewskiego 49

author

Konrad Matysiak

• Department of General Surgery, Oncological Gastroenterology, and Plastic Surgery, Medical University in Poznań, Kierownik: prof. dr hab. M. Drews

author

Anna Sowińska

• Department of Informatics and Medical Sciences, Medical University in Poznań, Kierownik: prof. dr hab. J. A. Moczko

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/pjs-2013-0055