Incidental Prophylactic Appendectomy Is Associated with a Profound Microbial Dysbiosis in the Long-Term.

ABSTRACT: Incidental prophylactic surgeries are performed in certain situations. Incidental prophylactic appendectomies were common practice within opened bariatric surgeries. The gut microbiota has emerged as an important actor within the homeostasis of the host. A new hypothesis has been formulated about the appendix function in relation to gut microbiota. Our objective was to study the gut microbiota profiles of patients that had suffered from an incidental prophylactic appendectomy during their bariatric surgeries, while comparing them to patients whose appendixes had remained intact. A case-control observational prospective study of 40 patients who underwent bariatric surgery, with or without an incidental prophylactic appendectomy, during 2004-2008 with an evaluation of their gut microbiota po

SUBMITTER: Sanchez-Alcoholado L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7232405 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature