INTRODUCTION
Anastomotic leak (AL) after intestinal surgery has a dramatical impact
on patient’s outcome regarding its high morbidity (35%) and variable
mortality (4-22%)1,2.Although early diagnosis and
immediate intervention improves the prognosis, in many patients, due to
non-specific symptoms and indeterminate radiologic imaging, clinical
diagnosis of AL may delay untill 6-12 days after surgery3.
Previous studies have shown that inflammatory biomarkers like
procalcitonin (PCT) and C-reactive protein (CRP) may be useful in the
early diagnosis of AL after major surgeries4. But, up
to now, no studies evaluating the role of these markers in the early
detection of AL after gyne-oncological operations have been found in the
literature.
In the present study, we aimed to analyze the serum markers for the
early diagnosis of AL after the gyne-oncological operations.