Circular stapler platform and the risk of anastomotic leakage after elective left colectomy and high anterior resection
Stefano Guadagni, Marco Catarci, Francesco Masedu, Marco Clementi, Marco Clementi, Paolo Ciano, Michele Benedetti, Leonardo Antonio Montemurro, Fanny Massimi, Elena Belloni, Matteo Di Carlo, Giacomo Ruffo, Elisa Bertocchi, Gaia Masini, Massimo Giuseppe Viola, Amedeo Altamura, Francesco Rubichi, Gianluca Garulli, Daniele Parlanti, Gabriele Vago, Carlo Di Marco, Marco Scatizzi, Lorenzo Pandolfini, Alessandro Falsetto, Vincenzo Bottino, Antonio Ferronetti, Ferdinando Ficari, Francesco Giudici, Fabio Cianchi, Paolo Delrio, Massimiliano Di Marzo, Felice Pirozzi, Antonio Sciuto, Maria Carmela Giuffrida, Marco Migliore, Raffaele De Luca, Michele Simone, Alberto Patriti, Valerio Sisti, Marcella Lodovica Ricci · 2026
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Description
Guadagni and a very large team compare surgical stapler brands for bowel reconnection in this 2026 pooled analysis. Circular staplers join the bowel after removal of a diseased left colon segment, and leakage at the join is a feared complication. The authors pooled individual data from three Italian colorectal studies. Together they covered 3,653 patients. Five stapler platforms were compared. The analysis was weighted to balance patient differences between groups.
Leakage occurred in about 2.7 percent of patients treated with the reference three-row stapler platform within sixty days of surgery in the pooled data. Two of the other platforms carried more than double the odds of leakage after adjustment, while the remaining two did not differ significantly from the reference. Because one platform's estimate rested on a much-reduced effective sample, the authors urge caution and prospective confirmation.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Stefano Guadagni, Marco Catarci, Francesco Masedu, Marco Clementi, Marco Clementi, Paolo Ciano, Michele Benedetti, Leonardo Antonio Montemurro, Fanny Massimi, Elena Belloni, Matteo Di Carlo, Giacomo Ruffo, Elisa Bertocchi, Gaia Masini, Massimo Giuseppe Viola, Amedeo Altamura, Francesco Rubichi, Gianluca Garulli, Daniele Parlanti, Gabriele Vago, Carlo Di Marco, Marco Scatizzi, Lorenzo Pandolfini, Alessandro Falsetto, Vincenzo Bottino, Antonio Ferronetti, Ferdinando Ficari, Francesco Giudici, Fabio Cianchi, Paolo Delrio, Massimiliano Di Marzo, Felice Pirozzi, Antonio Sciuto, Maria Carmela Giuffrida, Marco Migliore, Raffaele De Luca, Michele Simone, Alberto Patriti, Valerio Sisti, Marcella Lodovica Ricci |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 44 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |