[Measures for reducing complications in anus praeternaturalis repair]

Colostomy closure has also today a complication rate between 20 and 30% in the literature, in which infectious complications are playing a substantial role. Increasing experience and standardization as well as better preoperative treatment, like whole gut irrigation and perioperative antibiotics and the additional use of a Gentamicin-PMMA-chain, led to a distinct reduction of the postoperative complication rate in a prospective study of 40 colostomy closures.