Postoperative biosynthetic human growth hormone increases the strength and collagen deposition of experimental colonic anastomoses
✍ Scribed by Henrik Christensen; Hans Oxlund; Søren Laurberg
- Book ID
- 104730518
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1991
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 674 KB
- Volume
- 6
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0179-1958
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✦ Synopsis
This study examined the effects of preoperative treatment with 2.0 mg biosynthetic human growth hormone (b-hGH)/kg/day on the bursting strength and collagen deposition of experimental left colonic anastomoses, and of intact colon from sham-operated rats. The anastomotic bursting pressure was 55% higher in the b-hGH treated animals on day 2 (p less than 0.05) and 79% higher on day 4 (NS; p = 0.056), and the bursting wall tension was 65% higher on day 2 (p less than 0.05) and 112% higher on day 4 postoperatively (p less than 0.05), than saline-injected controls. The hydroxyproline content of the anastomotic segment in the b-hGH treated rats increased by 56% on day 4 (p less than 0.005) and by 30% on day 6 postoperatively (p less than 0.05), compared with controls. At 3 cm proximal to the anastomoses the defatted dry weight and hydroxyproline content of the healing colons were increased after 6 days compared with the sham-operated rats. There was, however, no difference between the b-hGH treated rats and the paired controls, indicating that growth hormone is not involved in this process.