Is early postoperative small bowel obstruction an independent risk factor for subsequent adhesive small bowel obstruction in patients undergoing open colectomy?
The development of adhesive SBO after colectomy is more frequent in patients with EPSBO and colostomy; however, POI does not increase the risk of adhesive SBO.
This analysis has demonstrated that mobile DNA elements are a major functional component of cecal microbiomes, thus contributing to horizontal gene transfer and functional microbiome evolution. Moreover, the metavirulomes of these microbiomes appear to associate by host environment. These data have implications for defining core and variable microbiome content in a host species. Furthermore, this suggests that the evolution of host specific metavirulomes is a contributing factor in disease resistance to zoonotic pathogens.