Randomised trial comparing LigaSure haemorrhoidectomy with the diathermy dissection operation
| Autor: | F Cortese, Giovanni Milito, M. Gargiani |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors medicine.medical_treatment Electrosurgery Pain Hemorrhoids Severity of Illness Index law.invention Postoperative Complications Randomized controlled trial law Severity of illness medicine Electrocoagulation Humans Pain Measurement Wound Healing business.industry Gastroenterology Diathermy Middle Aged medicine.disease Colorectal surgery Surgery Dissection Stenosis Anesthesia Defecation Female business Abdominal surgery |
| Zdroj: | Techniques in coloproctology. 6(3) |
| ISSN: | 1123-6337 |
| Popis: | The study was designed to compare LigaSure haemorrhoidectomy with open haemorrhoidectomy performed by means of diathermy excision. Fifty-sixty consecutive patients with third- and fourth-degree haemorrhoids were randomly allocated to undergo either LigaSure haemorrhoidectomy (29 patients) or diathermy haemorrhoidectomy (27 patients). All patients were evaluated for operative time, pain, post-operative analgesic requirements, time to first bowel movement, length of hospital stay, wound healing period, time to return to work, and occurrence of early postoperative complications (such as urinary dysfunction, bleeding, soiling, seepage, continence disorders) and late complications (such as stenosis). A statistically significant advantage was observed in the patients who received the LigaSure technique as far as concerns length of operative time (9.2 vs. 12.2 min, p |
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