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Levatorplasty's role in rectal prolapse management for patients with wide pelvic hiatus: a cohort study
Mohamed Yehia Elbarmelgi1, Ali Ahmed Shafik2, Shady Fathy Badee2
1Cairo university, Giza, Egypt. dr.yeho@yahoo.com.
Background And Aims:
Rectal prolapse (RP) is a debilitating condition and can cause symptoms of fecal incontinence, obstructed defecation, incomplete evacuation of the rectum, and pain. In recent years, there has been increasing evidence that prolapse development is strongly associated with pelvic hiatus (GH) size (normal 4.5 +/- 0.7). Multiple surgical studies have suggested that an enlarged pelvic hiatus may be associated with prolapse recurrence. The main aim of this study is to assess the role of combining levatorplasty -with different rectal prolapse surgeries- on recurrence rate and improvement of symptoms in patients that were treated for rectal prolapse with wide pelvic hiatus.
Patients And Methods:
Our study is a combined retrospective and prospective cohort study which included sixty patients with rectal prolapse with wide pelvic hiatus, they were divided into two groups (each group thirty patients). One group underwent rectal prolapse repair, the other group underwent rectal prolapse repair with levatorplasty.
Results:
Levatorplasty group showed improvement in Wexner score, recurrence rate in comparison to the other group. Both groups showed similar results in postoperative pain and dyspareunia.
Conclusion:
Rectal prolapse repair combined with levatorplasty in patients complaining of rectal prolapse with wide pelvic hiatus have better outcome mainly in decreasing recurrence rate.
