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Intraoperative use of fluorescence with indocyanine green reduces anastomotic leak rates in rectal cancer surgery: an individual participant data analysis
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Arezzo, Alberto; Bonino, Marco Augusto; Ris, Frédéric; Boni, Luigi; Cassinotti, Elisa; Foo, Dominic Chi Chung; Shum, Nga Fan; Brolese, Alberto; Ciarleglio, Francesco; Keller, Deborah S; Rosati, Riccardo; De Nardi, Paola; Elmore, Ugo; Fumagalli Romario, Uberto; Jafari, Mehraneh Dorna; Pigazzi, Alessio; Rybakov, Evgeny; Alekseev, Mikhail; Watanabe, Jun; Vettoretto, Nereo; Cirocchi, Roberto; Passera, Roberto; Forcignanò, Edoardo; Morino, Mario
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Surgical Endoscopy. 34(10)
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BackgroundFluorescence imaging by means of Indocyanine green (ICG) has been applied to intraoperatively determine the perfusion of the anastomosis. The purpose of this Individual Participant Database meta-analysis was to assess the effectiveness in decreasing the incidence of anastomotic leak (AL) after rectal cancer surgery.MethodsWe searched PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library and ClinicalTrial.gov, EU Clinical Trials and ISRCTN registries on September 1st, 2019. We considered eligible those studies comparing the assessment of anastomotic perfusion during rectal cancer surgery by intraoperative use of ICG fluorescence compared with standard practice. We defined as primary outcome the incidence of AL at 30 days after surgery. The studies were assessed for quality by means of the ROBINS-I and the Cochrane risk tools. We calculated odds ratios (ORs) using the Individual patient data analysis, restricted to rectal lesions, according to original treatment allocation.ResultsThe review of the literature and international registries produced 15 published studies and 5 ongoing trials, for 9 of which the authors accepted to share individual participant data. 314 patients from two randomized trials, 452 from three prospective series and 564 from 4 non-randomized studies were included. Fluorescence imaging significantly reduced the incidence of AL (OR 0.341; 95% CI 0.220-0.530; p