Research Paper Volume 13, Issue 6 pp 8929—8943
Blood metabolomic profiling predicts postoperative gastrointestinal function of colorectal surgical patients under the guidance of goal-directed fluid therapy
- 1 Faculty of Anesthesiology, Changhai Hospital, Naval Medical University/ Second Military Medical University, PLA, Shanghai 200433, China
- 2 Department of Anesthesiology, Naval Medical Center, Naval Medical University/ Second Military Medical University, PLA, Shanghai 200052, China
- 3 Department of Anesthesiology, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences and Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610072, China
- 4 Department of Anesthesiology, The Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315020, China
- 5 Department of Anesthesiology, Chenggong Hospital, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361001, China
Received: September 24, 2020 Accepted: February 8, 2021 Published: March 10, 2021
https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.202711How to Cite
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Abstract
Postoperative gastrointestinal function influences postoperative recovery and length of hospital stay for patients undergoing colorectal surgery. Goal-directed fluid therapy (GDFT) restricts fluid administration to an amount required to prevent dehydration. Although the fluid management of GDFT could decrease the incidence of postoperative complications in patients who undergo high-risk surgery, certain patients may not respond to GDFT. Thus, to achieve optimal treatment, identification of patients suitable for GDFT is necessary. Metabolomic profiling of 48 patients undergoing surgery for colorectal cancer was performed. Patients were divided into delayed- and enhanced-recovered groups based on gastrointestinal function within 72 hours, and the results of omics analysis showed differential serum metabolites between the two groups of patients in the post anesthesia care unit 24 hours after surgery. A support vector machine model was applied to evaluate the curative effects of GDFT in different patients. Four metabolites, oleamide, ubiquinone-1, acetylcholine, and oleic acid, were found to be highly associated with postoperative gastrointestinal function and could be used as potential biomarkers. Moreover, four pathways were found to be highly related to postoperative gastrointestinal recovery. Among them, the vitamin B6 metabolism pathway may be a common pathway for improving postoperative recovery in various diseases. Our findings proposed a novel method to predict postoperative recovery of gastrointestinal function based on metabolomic profiling and suggested the potential mechanisms contributing to gastrointestinal function after surgical resection of colorectal cancer under the fluid management of GDFT.