Clinical and functional results of abdominal rectopexy for complete rectal prolapse

✍ Scribed by Miss J. L. McCue; J. P. S. Thomson

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 302 KB
• Volume: 78
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-1323
• DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800780808

✦ Synopsis

Clinical and functional results of abdominal rectopexy for complete rectal prolapse

Between 1977 and 1987,.53 patients underwent polyvinyl alcohol sponge rectopexy f o r complete rectal prolapse. The mean follow-up period was 36.7 months. Full thickness prolapse recurred in two patients (3.8 per cent). Infection around the prosthesis and faecal impaction developed in two patients each. Continence improved signiJicantly after operation, particzilarly in those under 70 years of age (P=O.O28, x2 test) and nulliparous women (P = 0.026, x2 test). Bowel junction was generul1.y unchanged after rectopexy; in purticular only eight patients (15 per cent) had signijicant postoperative constipation.