ArticleSurgery today2014
Functional outcomes and quality of life in patients treated with laparoscopic total colectomy for colonic inertia.
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- 2022 Seoul Consensus on Clinical Practice Guidelines for Functional Constipation.Journal of neurogastroenterology and motility · 2023Review
- Preservation of the superior rectal artery in laparoscopic colectomy for slow transit constipation: Is it really associated with better outcomes?World journal of gastroenterology · 2021Article
- Preservation of superior rectal artery in laparoscopically assisted subtotal colectomy with ileorectal anastomosis for slow transit constipation.World journal of gastroenterology · 2021Observational
- Defecation function and quality of life in patients with slow-transit constipation after colectomy.World journal of clinical cases · 2020Article
- Robotic natural orifice specimen extraction (NOSE) total colectomy with ileorectal anastomosis: a step-by-step video-guided technical note.Techniques in coloproctology · 2020Article
- Treatment of Chronic Constipation: Prescription Medications and Surgical Therapies.Gastroenterology & hepatology · 2015Article
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Abstract
purposeTo assess the functional outcomes and quality of life in patients with laparoscopic total colectomy for slow-transit constipation (STC).
methodsAll patients undergoing laparoscopic colectomy with ileorectal anastomosis for colonic inertia at two referral centers were analyzed. Their preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative details were recorded with a one-year follow-up. Their quality of life was assessed using the SF-36 questionnaire.
resultsBetween 2004 and 2007, 710 patients were evaluated. Eight female patients (1.1 %) fulfilled the criteria for STC without obstructive defecation syndrome. Their mean age was 38 years ± 15 (range from 22 to 62). The conversion rate was 12.5 %. The morbidity rate was 37.5 %, and mortality was nil. The preoperative abdominal pain was 6.6 ± 0.3 and had decreased to 3.6 ± 2.3 postoperatively (P = 0.008). At 1 year, the defecation frequency per week had increased from 0.84 ± 0.24 to 6.75 ± 3.4 (P = 0.001). Three patients developed nocturnal leakage (37.5 %). Eighty-eight percent of the patients recommend the procedure. All parameters of the SF-36 questionnaire had improved at the one-year follow-up examination.
conclusionLaparoscopic colectomy for slow-transit constipation is safe and increased the number of evacuations per week. Although nocturnal leakage may occur, these patients experience improvements in their quality of life.
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