TY - JOUR
T1 - Redo surgery in Hirschsprung disease
T2 - what did we learn? Unicentric experience on 70 patients
AU - Pini-Prato, Alessio
AU - Mattioli, Girolamo
AU - Giunta, Camilla
AU - Avanzini, Stefano
AU - Magillo, Paolo
AU - Bisio, Giovanni Maria
AU - Jasonni, Vincenzo
PY - 2010/4
Y1 - 2010/4
N2 - Purpose: This article is aimed at describing a series of 70 patients who underwent a redo pull-through in the period between January 1991 and January 2007 and to compare them with a series of consecutive patients with Hirschsprung disease who underwent a single pull-through. Methods: The notes were reviewed, and a comprehensive interview based on a disease-specific questionnaire for continence and quality of life was submitted to all eligible patients. We used a number of consecutive patients who underwent a single pull-through for Hirschsprung disease as control group. Results: Seventy patients were included. Residual aganglionosis in pulled-through bowel or retained aganglionic rectum represented the indications to reoperation in most cases. Intestinal obstruction represented the leading symptom in more than 60% of patients. We adopted either the endorectal pull-through, the Duhamel, or the Swenson procedure. Thirty-six patients were assessed for long-term outcome. One third experienced complications. Long-term continence was satisfactory in 70%. Enterocolitis, soiling, and perineal excoriations were complained by 30%. Excellent to good perspectives were described by 94%, and excellent to good cosmetic results by 22%. The only significant difference with control group (109 patients) involved cosmetic appearance, whereas soiling, although more frequent, could not be considered significantly increased. Conclusions: Patients who experience failure of a pull-through must go through multiple procedures to achieve definitive results. Although overall outcome does not significantly differ from that of a single effective pull-through, great efforts should be made to minimize complications and avoid the need for a redo, which requires experienced surgeons and highly committed families for a longer course of the disease.
AB - Purpose: This article is aimed at describing a series of 70 patients who underwent a redo pull-through in the period between January 1991 and January 2007 and to compare them with a series of consecutive patients with Hirschsprung disease who underwent a single pull-through. Methods: The notes were reviewed, and a comprehensive interview based on a disease-specific questionnaire for continence and quality of life was submitted to all eligible patients. We used a number of consecutive patients who underwent a single pull-through for Hirschsprung disease as control group. Results: Seventy patients were included. Residual aganglionosis in pulled-through bowel or retained aganglionic rectum represented the indications to reoperation in most cases. Intestinal obstruction represented the leading symptom in more than 60% of patients. We adopted either the endorectal pull-through, the Duhamel, or the Swenson procedure. Thirty-six patients were assessed for long-term outcome. One third experienced complications. Long-term continence was satisfactory in 70%. Enterocolitis, soiling, and perineal excoriations were complained by 30%. Excellent to good perspectives were described by 94%, and excellent to good cosmetic results by 22%. The only significant difference with control group (109 patients) involved cosmetic appearance, whereas soiling, although more frequent, could not be considered significantly increased. Conclusions: Patients who experience failure of a pull-through must go through multiple procedures to achieve definitive results. Although overall outcome does not significantly differ from that of a single effective pull-through, great efforts should be made to minimize complications and avoid the need for a redo, which requires experienced surgeons and highly committed families for a longer course of the disease.
KW - Complications
KW - Hirschsprung
KW - Outcome
KW - Pull-through
KW - Redo
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2009.08.001
DO - 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2009.08.001
M3 - Article
C2 - 20385282
AN - SCOPUS:77950474990
VL - 45
SP - 747
EP - 754
JO - Journal of Pediatric Surgery
JF - Journal of Pediatric Surgery
SN - 0022-3468
IS - 4
ER -