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Patients Receiving Prebiotics and Probiotics Before Liver Transplantation Develop Fewer Infections Than Controls: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis 

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1 Patients Receiving Prebiotics and Probiotics Before Liver Transplantation Develop Fewer Infections Than Controls: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis  Tarek Sawas, Shadi Al Halabi, Ruben Hernaez, William D. Carey, Won Kyoo Cho  Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology  Volume 13, Issue 9, Pages e3 (September 2015) DOI: /j.cgh Copyright © 2015 AGA Institute Terms and Conditions

2 Figure 1 Flow chart of literature review.
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3 Figure 2 Forest plot of infection rates with probiotics compared with the control group. The relative risk and 95% confident interval are shown. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology  , e3DOI: ( /j.cgh ) Copyright © 2015 AGA Institute Terms and Conditions

4 Figure 3 Forest plot of mean difference and inverse variance (IV) in (A) hospital length of stay, (B) ICU length of stay, and (C) antibiotic duration. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology  , e3DOI: ( /j.cgh ) Copyright © 2015 AGA Institute Terms and Conditions

5 Figure 4 Forest plot of controlled trials of probiotics vs control in liver transplant: effect on acute graft rejection. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology  , e3DOI: ( /j.cgh ) Copyright © 2015 AGA Institute Terms and Conditions

6 Supplementary Figure 1 Risk of bias graph: review authors' judgements about each risk of bias item presented as percentages across all included studies. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology  , e3DOI: ( /j.cgh ) Copyright © 2015 AGA Institute Terms and Conditions

7 Supplementary Figure 2 Risk of bias summary: review authors' judgements about each risk of bias item for each included study. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology  , e3DOI: ( /j.cgh ) Copyright © 2015 AGA Institute Terms and Conditions


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