title: Effects of carbon dioxide pneumoperitoneum on hepatic and renal morphology of rats after segmental colectomy and colonic anastomosis.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the effects of increased intraperitoneal pressure caused by carbon dioxide pneumoperitoneum on the hepatic and renal morphology of rats.
  
  
  METHODS
  Fifty-four adult male rats were randomly divided into three groups (P, PP and C) after anesthesia: P - in 18 animals, pneumoperitoneum was established for 30 minutes immediately before laparotomy; PP - in 18 animals, pneumoperitoneum was established for 60 minutes divided into 30 immediately before laparotomy and 30 after abdominal closure; control group (C) - 18 animals underwent laparotomy without pneumoperitoneum induction. The pneumoperitoneum was maintained at a pressure of 5 mm Hg. Nine animals in each group were killed on the 3(rd) and 7(th) postoperative days, when kidney and liver samples were collected for morphological analysis. The liver specimens were stained with hematoxylin and eosin (HE), and the kidney specimens, with HE and von Kossa. Blinded examiners analyzed the slides.
  
  
  RESULTS
  No changes in renal morphology were found. Liver samples showed histological signs of degeneration in animals in the pneumoperitoneum groups killed on the 7(th) postoperative day (p=0.029).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The CO(2) pneumoperitoneum did not affect renal morphology but caused hydropic degeneration in the liver of animals killed on the 7(th) postoperative day.
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine, UnB, Brasilia, Brazil.
authors.forename: Igor Eduardo Caetano
authors.initials: IE
authors.lastname: Farias
authors.forename: Pedro Henrique Alves de
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Morais
authors.forename: Leonardo de Castro
authors.initials: Lde C
authors.lastname: Durães
authors.forename: Fabiana Pirani
authors.initials: FP
authors.lastname: Carneiro
authors.forename: Paulo Gonçalves de
authors.initials: PG
authors.lastname: Oliveira
authors.forename: João Batista de
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Sousa
mesh_terms: D000714:Anastomosis, Surgical / Q000379:methods; D000818:Animals; D002245:Carbon Dioxide; D003082:Colectomy / Q000379:methods*; D003106:Colon / Q000601:surgery*; D007668:Kidney / Q000473:pathology*; D008099:Liver / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D011028:Pneumoperitoneum, Artificial / Q000009:adverse effects*; D011184:Postoperative Period; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D013997:Time Factors; D016896:Treatment Outcome
chemical_list: D002245:Carbon Dioxide