1. Functional outcomes and quality of life in patients treated with laparoscopic total colectomy for colonic inertia
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Javier Pérez-Aguirre, Nathalie Rodríguez-Dennen, Miguel Angel Valdovinos-Díaz, Rabí Mejía-Ovalle, Omar Vergara-Fernández, Víctor Hugo Guerrero-Guerrero, Juan Carlos Sánchez-Robles, and Noel Salgado-Nesme
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Adult ,Male ,Abdominal pain ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Constipation ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Anastomotic Leak ,Young Adult ,Quality of life ,Surveys and Questionnaires ,medicine ,Humans ,Defecation ,Laparoscopy ,Colectomy ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Colonic inertia ,Mortality rate ,General Medicine ,Middle Aged ,Surgery ,Treatment Outcome ,Quality of Life ,Female ,medicine.symptom ,Gastrointestinal Motility ,business ,Follow-Up Studies - Abstract
To assess the functional outcomes and quality of life in patients with laparoscopic total colectomy for slow-transit constipation (STC). All 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. Between 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. Laparoscopic 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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- 2013