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Stapled hemorrhoidectomy: surgical notes and results.

Abstract
Recently the surgical treatment of hemorrhoids using a circular stapler device has gained increasing approval. The Longo's procedure reduces the rectal mucosal and hemorrhoid prolapse using a circular stapler to resect transversally a mucosal-submucosal rectal ring in order to restore the correct anatomical relationships of the anal canal structures. The recent availability of a dedicated instrument kit (PPH01 Ethicon Endo-Surgery) allowed an easy diffusion of this technique. From March 1999 to September 2001, 198 patients with III-IV degree hemorrhoids were treated by a single expert surgeon using the dedicated kit instrumentation (PPH01) according to the Longo's technique, adopting some variations from the original procedure: 1) The anal dilator is not fixed to the perianal skin with forceps or stitches but is kept by the assistant. 2) In performing the purse-string suture particular care must be given to the apposition of the stitches at the same level also in the posterolateral side where there is a natural trend to apply the stitches at a lower level; furthermore the last stitch of the purse-string suture must be overlapped to the first one in order to allow a better hemostasis when the knot is tightened. 3) After having performed the purse-string and having resected the mucosa and submucosa, an accurate hemostasis with U-shaped 3/0 vicryl stitches firmly reduces the postoperative bleeding. We recorded pain scores, short- and long-term complications (included moderate-severe pain, persistent pain), recurrences and postoperative hospital stay. The data of the last 40 consecutive patients who underwent stapled hemorrhoidectomy were compared with the data obtained by 40 consecutive patients who underwent Milligan-Morgan diathermic hemorrhoidectomy for III-IV degree non-circumferential hemorrhoids by the same surgeon. In the 198 stapled hemorrhoidectomy cases the rate of postoperative moderate-severe pain and persistent pain were 6% and 2.5% respectively, the rate of short-term and long-term bleeding were 4.5% and 3.5%, the recurrence rate was 2.5%. The mean postoperative stay was 1.6 days. The stapled group had significantly lower postoperative moderate-severe pain, bleeding and soiling than the Milligan-Morgan group.
AuthorsDomenico Mascagni, Kenneth Paul Zeri, Filippo Maria Di Matteo, Nadia Peparini, Alessandro Maturo, Alberto Berni
JournalHepato-gastroenterology (Hepatogastroenterology) 2003 Nov-Dec Vol. 50 Issue 54 Pg. 1878-82 ISSN: 0172-6390 [Print] Greece
PMID14696423 (Publication Type: Comparative Study, Journal Article)
Topics
  • Electrocoagulation
  • Equipment Design
  • Fecal Incontinence (etiology)
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Hemorrhoids (surgery)
  • Hemostasis, Surgical (instrumentation)
  • Humans
  • Length of Stay
  • Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care
  • Pain Measurement
  • Pain, Postoperative (etiology)
  • Postoperative Complications (etiology)
  • Postoperative Hemorrhage (etiology)
  • Recurrence
  • Surgical Staplers
  • Suture Techniques (instrumentation)

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