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Long-term prospective assessment of functional results after proctectomy with coloanal anastomosis.
Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery 2001 March
The objective of this study was to prospectively assess the long-term functional results after restorative proctectomy with coloanal anastomosis for rectal cancer. Thirty consecutive patients (18 males; mean age 59.6 +/- 9.8 years, range 40 to 75 years) underwent proctectomy with coloanal anastomosis for rectal cancer between January 1990 and March 1997. Cancers were located between 5 and 12 cm from the anal verge. Differences existed in the administration of adjuvant therapy and in the kind of anastomotic reconstruction. An 8 cm colonic J-pouch was fashioned in 11 patients. The coloanal anastomosis was protected by a diverting loop ileostomy in 22 patients. All patients were evaluated using a prospective patient-completed protocol to record daily bowel activity over a 1-week period at 3, 6, and 12 months, and yearly thereafter. Mean follow-up extends to 55.5 +/- 27 months (range 7 to 117 months). There were no perioperative deaths. Four patients (13.3%) developed a clinically evident anastomotic dehiscence. Overall, stool frequency decreased from 4.4 +/- 2.5 bowel movements per day at 3 months to 3.0 +/- 2.8 bowel movements per day at 5 years. Patients with a J-pouch had a lower stool frequency in comparison to patients with an end-to-end coloanal anastomosis during the entire study period (from 3.2 +/- 2.2 vs. 3.9 +/- 2.7 bowel movements per day at 6 months to 2.8 +/- 1.9 vs. 3.4 +/- 4.0 bowel movements per day at 5 years; no statistical significance). The percentage of continent patients increased from 50% at 6 months to 75% at 5 years; the percentage of patients with incontinence for solid stool and with frequent incontinence ($7 episodes per week) decreased from 35.7% at 6 months to 12.5% at 5 years. The influence of the type of anastomosis, dehiscence, protective stoma, J-pouch, radiation therapy, and gender was evaluated with univariate analysis. Although there was no statistically significant correlation between any of these variables and the development of incontinence, when incontinence occurred, a history of anastomotic dehiscence increased the number of episodes of incontinence per week and the percentage of episodes of incontinence for solid stools at 6 months, 2 years, and 5 years (P < 0.05 and P < 0.001, respectively); the use of preoperative radiation therapy increased the number of episodes of incontinence per week at 6 months, 1 year, 2 years, and 5 years (P < 0.01) and the percentage of episodes of incontinence for solid stools at 3 and 6 months and 1 and 2 years (P < 0.04); and the presence of a J-pouch increased the number of episodes of incontinence per week at 1 and 2 years (P < 0.03 and 0.005, respectively) and the percentage of episodes of incontinence for solid stools at 2, 3, and 4 years (P < 0.05). These data suggest that the functional results after proctectomy with coloanal anastomosis improve at least over the course of the first 5 postoperative years. Furthermore, when incontinence develops, its severity is made worse by the occurrence of an anastomotic dehiscence, the use of preoperative radiation therapy, and the presence of a J-pouch.
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