Management of patients with high C-reactive protein levels after elective colorectal surgery: Pilot study on a proactive diagnostic and therapeutic approach (GESPACE).

Study Objective: To evaluate the feasibility and benefit of a diagnostic and therapeutic algorithm for management of patients presenting with a high C-reactive protein (CRP) level after colorectal surgery.

Patients And Methods: Prospective study including patients with CRP>125mg/L at the 4th postoperative day following elective colorectal surgery. The protocol involved CT-scan of which the results were to orient subsequent management: antibiotics, radiological drainage, endoscopy or surgical redo.

Surgical treatment of digestive cancer in a well-defined elderly population.

Introduction: Digestive cancer is of concern because of its frequency and severity with an increasing older median age of onset. The purpose of this study was to describe in a well-defined population presenting with non-metastatic digestive cancer the frequency of surgical resection and outcomes according to age.

Patients And Methods: We analyzed 7760 patients with a non-metastatic digestive cancer, recorded in the Burgundy population-based digestive cancer registry between 2009 and 2017.