Clinical benefit of oral lactulose for postoperative care of pateints with complicated appendicitis using propensity score matching analysis.

Under PS-matching, the absolute standardized mean differences reduced the values to the range from 0.01 to 0.07, indicating that the continuous and categorical variables were very similar and comparable between the patients with and without laxative administration (Table 1 ). Efficacy for gastrointestinal function recovery A positive trend for accelerated GI function recovery was observed for patients treated with laxative, which was assessed by first bowel movement, first stool, and postoperative feeding time.

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