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Tracking levels of C-reactive protein in the body may help health care professionals to determine whether anastomotic leakage is occurring in patients who have recently undergone colorectal surgery.
According to a pair of recent studies, monitoring CRP may signal leakage, thus acting as an easy, early indicator appearing before other radiological and clinical signs (Sci Rep 2020:10[1].