Erschienen in:
20.09.2017 | Letter to the Editor
Post-hepatectomy Lactate: Should We Add More?
verfasst von:
Affirul Chairil Ariffin
Erschienen in:
World Journal of Surgery
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Ausgabe 5/2018
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Excerpt
I read with great interest the article written by Lemke et al. [
1]. This is indeed a topic of much interest due to the increase in hepatectomy cases annually. The rarity positive findings of the ‘50–50’ rule in post-hepatectomy patient requires a better surrogate as an addition. Multiple articles have proven the role of lactate in post-operative gastrointestinal surgery and hepatectomy specifically [
2,
3]. However, there are few questions and issues that I think is important to discuss further. …