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Treatment of anal fissures: Results from a national survey on French practice
Véronique Vitton1, Dominique Bouchard2, Marine Guingand1
1Service de Gastroentérologie, Hôpital Nord, Assistance-Publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille, Aix-Marseille Université, France.
Background:
Treatment of an anal fissure (AF) is based on medical treatment (nonoperative therapies) and surgical procedures. However, the choice of treatment and its role in therapeutic strategy vary from one country to another, and to date, no standard French recommendation is currently available. Our aim was to assess French practices in the treatment of AFs.
Methods:
A national survey of members of the French National Society of Colo-Proctology (SNFCP) was carried out using an online questionnaire (1) to evaluate French practice and (2) to compare them with guidelines of other societies.
Results:
Two hundred responses were obtained among the 300 registered members, representing a participation rate of 67%. Members of the SNFCP agree with all scientific societies on the importance of first-line medical treatment, with surgery proposed as a second-line treatment in the case of the failure of well-conducted medical treatment. However, calcium channel blockers and topical nitrates as first-line treatment are rarely prescribed in France. Priority is therefore given to "simple" topical healing products and oral analgesics on demand. Similarly, surgical management differs since LIS is the "gold standard" in most guidelines, whereas in France, despite the data in the literature, fissurectomy is the first-line treatment.
Conclusions:
Our study indicated the fissure treatment discrepancies of France with other countries concerning the usage of topical treatments and the choice of first-line surgical treatments that is currently considered a "French exception".
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