None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
Incidence of leak from low rectal anastomosis is high and diversion is usually needed. Reinforcement of anastomsis might help to decrease leak. Purpose of this work is to study the effect of reinforcing stapled low rectal anastomosis with regenerated oxidized cellulose on the incidence of anastomotic leak.
Interventions
patients had stapled straight low colorectal or colo-anal anastomosis for low rectal cancer without proximal diversion. Patients were prospectively randomized to either regenerated oxidized cellulose reinforcement (OCR) or no reinforcement (NR). Data collected included: age, sex, hemoglobin %, albumin level, histopathologic type of the tumor. Reinforcement was done by integration of the regenerated oxidized cellulose (ROC) in the staple line of the anastomosis. The regenerated oxidized cellulos
patients had stapled straight low colorectal or colo-anal anastomosis for low rectal cancer without proximal diversion. Patients were prospectively randomized to either regenerated oxidized cellulose reinforcement (OCR) or no reinforcement (NR). Data collected included: age, sex, hemoglobin %, albumin level, histopathologic type of the tumor. Reinforcement was done by integration of the regenerated oxidized cellulose (ROC) in the staple line of the anastomosis. The regenerated oxidized cellulose is incorporated in the staple anastomotic line. procedure usually takes 30 mins
Sponsors
Alexandria University hospitals
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Primary purpose
Treatment
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 75 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Adults with mid and low rectal cancer
Exclusion criteria
refusal of randomization
Outcome results
None listed