Anal sphincter repair improves anorectal function and endosonographic image - A prospective clinical study

被引:73
作者
FeltBersma, RJF
Cuesta, MA
Koorevaar, M
机构
[1] UNIV HOSP AMSTERDAM,FREE UNIV BRUSSELS,DEPT SURG,AMSTERDAM,NETHERLANDS
[2] UNIV HOSP AMSTERDAM,FREE UNIV BRUSSELS,DEPT GASTROENTEROL,AMSTERDAM,NETHERLANDS
关键词
D O I
10.1007/BF02053986
中图分类号
R57 [消化系及腹部疾病];
学科分类号
摘要
PURPOSE: This study investigated the effect of anal sphincter repair on fecal continence in relation to anal endosonography and anal manometry. METHODS: Eighteen patients (7 male, 11 female) with anal sphincter defects and complaints of fecal incontinence (5), soiling (= liquid discharge; 3), or both (10) were studied before and after sphincter repair with endosonography and anal manometry. Complaints were the result of obstetric trauma (7), surgical trauma (7), both (3), and other trauma (1). Five patients had previous surgery. Preoperative endosonography showed a defect of both sphincters in nine patients, a defect of the external anal sphincter in five patients, and a defect of the internal anal sphincter in four patients. An overlapping sphincter repair was performed. RESULTS: Postoperatively and subjectively (S; patient's view), 13 (72 percent) patients became continent or improved; in 5 (28 percent) patients the complaints were unaltered. Objectively (O) (incontinence or soiling frequency), these figures were 12 (67 percent) and 6 (33 percent). Postoperative endosonographic images improved in 14 (78 percent) patients; defects of the sphincters (almost) disappeared (4) or were smaller (10). In the other four patients, images were unchanged. In two patients, overlapping of the muscle was clearly visible with anal endosonography. Clinical result (subjective (S) and objective (O)) of sphincter repair correlated with changes in anal endosonography (S, r = 0.64, P < 0.004; O, r = 0.51, P = 0.03) and anal manometry (S, r = 0.54, P = 0.038; O, r = 0.44, P = 0.09 (not significant)) and not with pudendal nerve latency. CONCLUSION: In 78 percent of our patients, endosonographic sphincter defect had diminished or disappeared after sphincter repair. There was a good correlation between clinical effect of sphincter repair and changes with anal endosonography and anal manometry. Postoperative persistent incontinence is attributable to remaining sphincter defects. Anal endosonography should be performed as a routine procedure in patients with fecal incontinence or soiling, also after failed surgery.
引用
收藏
页码:878 / 885
页数:8
相关论文
共 32 条
  • [1] RESULTS OF PARKS OPERATION FOR FECAL INCONTINENCE AFTER ANAL-SPHINCTER INJURY
    BROWNING, GGP
    MOTSON, RW
    [J]. BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL, 1983, 286 (6381) : 1873 - 1875
  • [2] CONFIRMATION OF ENDOSONOGRAPHIC DETECTION OF EXTERNAL ANAL-SPHINCTER DEFECTS BY SIMULTANEOUS ELECTROMYOGRAPHIC MAPPING
    BURNETT, SJD
    SPEAKMAN, CTM
    KAMM, MA
    BARTRAM, CI
    [J]. BRITISH JOURNAL OF SURGERY, 1991, 78 (04) : 448 - 450
  • [3] UNSUSPECTED SPHINCTER DAMAGE FOLLOWING CHILDBIRTH REVEALED BY ANAL ENDOSONOGRAPHY
    BURNETT, SJD
    SPENCEJONES, C
    SPEAKMAN, CTM
    KAMM, MA
    HUDSON, CN
    BARTRAM, CI
    [J]. BRITISH JOURNAL OF RADIOLOGY, 1991, 64 (759) : 225 - 227
  • [4] CTERCTEKO G C, 1988, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery, V58, P703, DOI 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1988.tb01100.x
  • [5] ANAL-SPHINCTER DEFECTS - CORRELATION BETWEEN ENDOANAL ULTRASOUND AND SURGERY
    DEEN, KI
    KUMAR, D
    WILLIAMS, JG
    OLLIFF, J
    KEIGHLEY, MRB
    [J]. ANNALS OF SURGERY, 1993, 218 (02) : 201 - 205
  • [6] ANTERIOR ANAL-SPHINCTER REPAIR IN PATIENTS WITH OBSTETRIC TRAUMA
    ENGEL, AF
    KAMM, MA
    SULTAN, AH
    BARTRAM, CI
    NICHOLLS, RJ
    [J]. BRITISH JOURNAL OF SURGERY, 1994, 81 (08) : 1231 - 1234
  • [7] OVERLAPPING SPHINCTEROPLASTY FOR ACQUIRED ANAL INCONTINENCE
    FANG, DT
    NIVATVONGS, S
    VERMEULEN, FD
    HERMAN, FN
    GOLDBERG, SM
    ROTHENBERGER, DA
    [J]. DISEASES OF THE COLON & RECTUM, 1984, 27 (11) : 720 - 722
  • [8] THE EXTERNAL ANAL-SPHINCTER - RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ANAL MANOMETRY AND ANAL ELECTROMYOGRAPHY AND ITS CLINICAL RELEVANCE
    FELTBERSMA, RJF
    STRIJERS, RLM
    JANSSEN, JJWM
    VISSER, SL
    MEUWISSEN, SGM
    [J]. DISEASES OF THE COLON & RECTUM, 1989, 32 (02) : 112 - 116
  • [9] ANAL ENDOSONOGRAPHY - RELATIONSHIP WITH ANAL MANOMETRY AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGIC TESTS
    FELTBERSMA, RJF
    CUESTA, MA
    KOOREVAAR, M
    STRIJERS, RLM
    MEUWISSEN, SGM
    DERCKSEN, EJ
    WESDORP, RIC
    [J]. DISEASES OF THE COLON & RECTUM, 1992, 35 (10) : 944 - 949
  • [10] UNSUSPECTED SPHINCTER DEFECTS SHOWN BY ANAL ENDOSONOGRAPHY AFTER ANORECTAL SURGERY - A PROSPECTIVE-STUDY
    FELTBERSMA, RJF
    VANBAREN, R
    KOOREVAAR, M
    STRIJERS, RL
    CUESTA, MA
    [J]. DISEASES OF THE COLON & RECTUM, 1995, 38 (03) : 249 - 253