Table 2.
Studies of indocyanine green (ICG) in perfusion assessment of left sided colorectal anastomoses, har = high anterior resection, lar = low anterior resection, al = anastomotic leak, ICG = indocyanine green, pts = patients
| Study | How HAR/LAR Recorded | HAR + ICG | HAR - ICG | LAR + ICG | LAR - ICG | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL | Total pts | AL | Total pts | AL | Total pts | AL | Total pts | ||
| Sherwinter et al. [9] | By height; HAR > 10 cm, LAR < = 10 cm | 1 | 11 | 1 | 9 | ||||
| Jafari et al. [10] | Operation recorded | 1 | 16 | 4 | 22 | ||||
| Ris et al. [11] | Operation recorded | 0 | 18 | 0 | 6 | ||||
| Hellan et al. [12] | Operation recorded, HAR includes left colectomies | 0 | 13 | 2 | 27 | ||||
| Jafari et al. [13] | By height; HAR > = 10 cm, LAR < 10 cm | 1 | 87 | 1 | 52 | ||||
| Watanabe et al. [14] | Operation recorded, HAR includes left colectomies | 4 | 63 | 3 | 46 | ||||
| Protyniak et al. [15] | Operation recorded | 0 | 1 | 0 | 47 | ||||
| Boni et al. [16] | Operation recorded, HAR includes left colectomies, LAR includes ‘>8 cm’ | 0 | 35 | 0 | 22 | ||||
| Boni et al. [17] | Operation recorded | 0 | 42 | 2 | 38 | ||||
| Kim et al. [18] | Operation recorded | 2 | 310 | 18 | 347 | ||||
| Wada et al. [19] | Operation recorded | 0 | 13 | 5 | 52 | ||||
| Hasegawa et al. [20] | Operation recorded | 0 | 10 | 3 | 28 | ||||
| Mizrahi et al. [21] | Operation recorded | 0 | 30 | 2 | 30 | ||||
| Ris et al. [22] | Operation recorded | 4 | 191 | 21 | 506 | 3 | 90 | 39 | 365 |
| Ogino et al. [23] | Operation recorded | 0 | 4 | 1 | 13 | ||||
| Son et al. [24] | Operation recorded | 0 | 31 | 3 | 55 | ||||
| Shapera and Hsiung [25] | Operation recorded | 0 | 58 | 1 | 23 | ||||
| Wada et al. [26] | Operation recorded | 5 | 48 | 7 | 101 | ||||
| Alekseev et al. [27] | By height; HAR = 9–15 cm, LAR < = 8 cm | 1 | 76 | 4 | 86 | 16 | 111 | 27 | 104 |
| Bonadio et al. [28] | LAR = ‘Rectal anterior resection’ | 2 | 33 | 7 | 33 | ||||
| Foo et al. [29] | HAR = ‘Non-TME’, LAR = ‘TME’ anterior resection | 4 | 126 | 5 | 115 | 6 | 127 | 16 | 138 |
| Hasegawa et al. [30] | Operation recorded | 4 | 141 | 87 | 703 | ||||
| Impellizzeri et al. [31] | Operation recorded, HAR includes left colectomies | 0 | 30 | 4 | 62 | 0 | 37 | 2 | 36 |
| Iwamoto et al. [32] | Operation recorded | 1 | 6 | 5 | 19 | ||||
| Watanabe et al. [33] | Only LAR cases, but included anastomoses up to 12.5 cm | 10 | 236 | 22 | 314 | ||||
| Benčurik et al. [34] | Operation recorded | 9 | 100 | 19 | 100 | ||||
| Jafari et al. [6] | Operation recorded | 16 | 178 | 16 | 169 | ||||
| Otero-Piñeiro et al. [35] | Operation recorded | 0 | 18 | 2 | 62 | ||||
| Han et al. [36] | Operation recorded | 0 | 10 | 2 | 12 | ||||
| Hasegawa et al. [37] | Operation recorded | 4 | 70 | 31 | 193 | ||||
| Hagiwara et al. [38] | Operation recorded | 1 | 45 | 15 | 81 | ||||