Use of melatonin in preventing postoperative complications.

摘要

Melatonin for use for the prophylactic treatment and / or prevention of postoperative infectious complications, selected from the group consisting of pneumonia, wound infection (wound dehiscence), intra-abdominal abscess and infection of the urinary tract infection (UTI), and / or non infectious complication anastomotic leak induced by surgical interventions performed on a human being surgeries operative procedures and including ischemia / reperfusion of one or more organs.