A randomized, double‐blinded, placebo‐controlled trial analyzing the effect of synbiotics on infectious complications following living donor liver transplant—<scp>PREPRO</scp> trial

Abstract

Synbiotics administered for 2 weeks following LDLT significantly reduced overall and blood stream infectious complications in the early postoperative period. However, there was no difference in hospital stay, noninfectious complications, antibiotic usage and mortality. Clinical Trial Registry of India registration number - CTRI/2017/09/009869.