The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of the probiotic use in patients with periampullary cancers undergone curative or palliative treatment considering nutritional status, postoperative complications, infection rate, length of hospitalization and mortality.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
QUADRUPLE
Enrollment
58
The probiotics pills are given orally in the amount of two pills twice a day as early as two days before surgery until ten days after surgery.
Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre
Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Mortality
Death will be considered as the primary outcome related to complications of surgical treatment in postoperative period
Time frame: participants will be followed for the duration of hospital stay, an expected average of 15 days
Postoperative infection rate
To assess postoperative infection rate in patients submitted to periampullary cancer surgery using probiotics.
Time frame: participants will be followed for the duration of hospital stay, an expected average of 15 days
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