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The authors present their experience with the treatment of haemorrhoidal nodes by Barron's method, having used this method for 2.5 years at the surgical department of the Vítkov hospital. By this method in 1999-2001 122 patients with clinical manifestations of grade I-III haemorrhoids were treated. In the described group six relapses were recorded.
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INTRODUCTION: Haemorrhoidectomy is associated with pain and open wounds. A new closed technique uses an intraluminal stapler to replace the prolapsed haemorrhoidal tissue to a normal anatomical position (anopexy) and to interrupt the vessels. We report our results, including the learning curve. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Forty patients with grade 4 haemorrhoids underwent operation, 26 women, median age 47 years (33-86), and 14 men, median age 53 years (34-75). Outcome parameters were hospital stay, pain score, surgical anatomy score before and after the operation, and complications, symptom-control and patient satisfaction. RESULTS: Eleven patients left hospital on the day of operation, 19 the day after. The median pain score was 3 (2-10) for the first four days and 1 on day 7 (0-4). The postoperative surgical anatomy score was 1 (normal anus) in 24 patients, 2 in nine patients, which was not different significantly at follow up (p > 0.05). Postoperative bleeding required haemostasis in two patients. One patient had a stenosis temporarily, and two patients had persistent pain and faecal urgency, which disappeared. No sphincter lesions occurred. Control of symptoms and satisfaction were excellent in 20 patients, good in 11, and satisfactory in five. DISCUSSION: Stapled anopexy restored surgical anatomy towards normal, with moderate pain and few complications. Control of symptoms and patient-satisfaction was high. The procedure is a new option in the treatment of severe haemorrhoids rather than an alternative to open haemorrhoidectomy.
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The Authors report their own experience with day-surgery treatment of haemorrhoids and underline the advantages in terms of patients' compliance and reduction of the sanitary management in order to the cost that this way suggests. The serie here reported includes 72 patients treated, by two years, with day-surgery haemorrhoidectomy. Here are indicated criteria of selection of the patients, related to the state of the illness, association of other pathologies and social factors. All the patients, moreover, have been treated according to a scheme that generally includes: a careful preoperatory valuation, local anaesthesia, standardized surgical method (Milligan-Morgan intervention), dimission few hours after the operation, control of the patients at their own home. The results obtained, careful examinted through an objective valuation (complications, relapses, time or reability) and subjective one (index of satisfaction of the patients), can be considered extremely positive.
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The use of circular staplers for the treatment of haemorrhoids is a new technique that makes for better correction of the physiopathology of the condition, affords greater patient comfort and reduces health-care expenditure. This technique, which was invented by A. Longo in 1993, pulls up the haemorrhoidal cushions into their anatomical position, reduces or avoids postoperative pain, sparing the sensitive fibres of the anal canal, avoids anal canal stenosis and is not complicated by faecal incontinence. The authors present their experience in 41 patients affected by symptomatic haemorrhoidal prolapse and treated with a mucosal rectal prolapsectomy using a circular stapler. Each patient was followed up for 6 months to assess the incidence of complications and the degree of patient satisfaction. The results were compared with those reported in the literature, obtained using the Milligan-Morgan procedure. The Longo technique, which can be performed in the one-day surgery setting, allows very good relief of postoperative pain, rapid functional recovery and an early return to work, with a saving in health-care expenditure as compared with conventional treatment.
The aim of the study was to evaluate the efficacy of anoplasty by mucosal advancement combined with internal sphincterotomy for the treatment of iatrogenic anal stenosis. From January 1990 to December 2000, 149 patients with post-haemorrhoidectomy anal strictures underwent internal sphincterotomy and mucosal advancement flap anoplasty. Seventy-one percent of patients were operated on under local anaesthesia by perineal block according to Marti. In 90 percent of the patients, postoperative pain was mild. No significant complications were seen. The mean hospital stay was two days. Ninety-seven percent of patients were well satisfied with the surgical result one year after operation. Current surgical options for the treatment of post-haemorrhoidectomy anal stricture are reported and the advantages of mucosal advancement flap anoplasty outlined.
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