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Surgical treatment of rectovaginal fistula—predictors of outcome and effects on quality of life
PURPOSE: To determine the results after rectovaginal fistula (RVF) repair and find predictors of outcome. Primary objective was fistula healing. Secondary outcomes were morbidity and patient health-related quality of life (HRQoL). METHOD: An observational study of 55 women who underwent RVF repair i...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9262790/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35779081 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00384-022-04206-7 |
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author | Söderqvist, Erik V. Cashin, Peter H. Graf, Wilhelm |
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description | PURPOSE: To determine the results after rectovaginal fistula (RVF) repair and find predictors of outcome. Primary objective was fistula healing. Secondary outcomes were morbidity and patient health-related quality of life (HRQoL). METHOD: An observational study of 55 women who underwent RVF repair including both local procedures and tissue transposition 2003–2018 was performed. Baseline patient and fistula characteristics were registered, combined with a prospective HRQoL follow-up and a general questionnaire describing fistula symptoms. RESULTS: Healing rate after index surgery was 25.5% (n = 14) but the final healing rate was 67.3% (n = 37). Comparing the etiologies, traumatic fistulas (iatrogenic and obstetric) had the highest healing rates after index surgery (n = 11, 45.9%) and after repeated operations at final follow-up (n = 22, 91.7%) compared with fistulas of inflammatory fistulas (Crohn’s disease, cryptoglandular infection, and anastomotic leakage) that had inferior healing rates after both index surgery (n = 7, 7.1%) and at final follow-up (n = 13, 46.4%). Fistulas of the category others (radiation damage and unknown etiology) included a small amount of patients with intermediate results at both index surgery (n = 1, 33.3%) and healing rate at last follow-up (n = 2, 66.7%). The differences were statistically significant for both index surgery (p = 0.004) and at final follow-up (p = 0.001). Unhealed patients scored lower than both healed patients and the normal population in 6/8 Rand-36 domains, but the differences were not statistically significant. CONCLUSIONS: Most traumatic rectovaginal fistulas closed after repeated surgery whereas inflammatory fistulas had a poor prognosis. Low healing rates after local repairs suggest that tissue transfer might be indicated more early in the treatment process. Unhealed fistulas were associated with reduced quality of life. Trial registration Clinicaltrials.gov No. NCT05006586. |
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spelling | pubmed-92627902022-07-09 Surgical treatment of rectovaginal fistula—predictors of outcome and effects on quality of life Söderqvist, Erik V. Cashin, Peter H. Graf, Wilhelm Int J Colorectal Dis Research PURPOSE: To determine the results after rectovaginal fistula (RVF) repair and find predictors of outcome. Primary objective was fistula healing. Secondary outcomes were morbidity and patient health-related quality of life (HRQoL). METHOD: An observational study of 55 women who underwent RVF repair including both local procedures and tissue transposition 2003–2018 was performed. Baseline patient and fistula characteristics were registered, combined with a prospective HRQoL follow-up and a general questionnaire describing fistula symptoms. RESULTS: Healing rate after index surgery was 25.5% (n = 14) but the final healing rate was 67.3% (n = 37). Comparing the etiologies, traumatic fistulas (iatrogenic and obstetric) had the highest healing rates after index surgery (n = 11, 45.9%) and after repeated operations at final follow-up (n = 22, 91.7%) compared with fistulas of inflammatory fistulas (Crohn’s disease, cryptoglandular infection, and anastomotic leakage) that had inferior healing rates after both index surgery (n = 7, 7.1%) and at final follow-up (n = 13, 46.4%). Fistulas of the category others (radiation damage and unknown etiology) included a small amount of patients with intermediate results at both index surgery (n = 1, 33.3%) and healing rate at last follow-up (n = 2, 66.7%). The differences were statistically significant for both index surgery (p = 0.004) and at final follow-up (p = 0.001). Unhealed patients scored lower than both healed patients and the normal population in 6/8 Rand-36 domains, but the differences were not statistically significant. CONCLUSIONS: Most traumatic rectovaginal fistulas closed after repeated surgery whereas inflammatory fistulas had a poor prognosis. Low healing rates after local repairs suggest that tissue transfer might be indicated more early in the treatment process. Unhealed fistulas were associated with reduced quality of life. Trial registration Clinicaltrials.gov No. NCT05006586. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2022-07-02 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9262790/ /pubmed/35779081 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00384-022-04206-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Research Söderqvist, Erik V. Cashin, Peter H. Graf, Wilhelm Surgical treatment of rectovaginal fistula—predictors of outcome and effects on quality of life |
title | Surgical treatment of rectovaginal fistula—predictors of outcome and effects on quality of life |
title_full | Surgical treatment of rectovaginal fistula—predictors of outcome and effects on quality of life |
title_fullStr | Surgical treatment of rectovaginal fistula—predictors of outcome and effects on quality of life |
title_full_unstemmed | Surgical treatment of rectovaginal fistula—predictors of outcome and effects on quality of life |
title_short | Surgical treatment of rectovaginal fistula—predictors of outcome and effects on quality of life |
title_sort | surgical treatment of rectovaginal fistula—predictors of outcome and effects on quality of life |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9262790/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35779081 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00384-022-04206-7 |
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