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Revista Archivo Médico de Camagüey
On-line version ISSN 1025-0255
Abstract
MARQUEZ HERNANDEZ, Joaquín; NOYA PIMIENTA, Manuel and HOOKER, Heriberto. Alternative proposal for the treatment of the sigmoid volvulus. AMC [online]. 2010, vol.14, n.1. ISSN 1025-0255.
Background: the sigmoidectomy with primary anastomosis of the colon constitutes an alternative for the surgical treatment of the sigmoid volvulus. Objective: to demonstrate the validity of this technique in selected patients and to know their advantages on the rest of surgical procedures to use. Method: sigmoidectomy with primary anastomosis in two planes to twenty-two patients carriers of sigmoid volvulus. A prospective longitudinal interventionist study began in October 2003 in Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital, Gambia and was concluded at "Amalia Simoni" Hospital of Camagüey in September 2007. Data were extracted of the clinical records from the patients at the moment of their hospital discharge. It were processed in IBM microcomputer. Inclusion, exclusion criteria that allowed evaluating the effectiveness of the treatment were established. Systemic prophylactic preoperative antibiotic-therapy was used. Results: the paralytic ileus prevailed as complication. Relative complications didn't exist to the primary anastomosis. No patients were reintervened neither mortality existed. All patients at the moment of their discharge manifested to feel satisfaction with the carried out surgical treatment. Conclusions: the carried out technique contributed to the patient biopsychosocial well-being. It contributed economic profits for saving concept to health institutions and to the state. Patients and family that economically depend of these were benefited from their quick labor reincorporation.
Keywords : intestinalvolvulus [therapy]; colon; sigmoid; anastomosis; surgical; intervention studies; sigmoid neoplasms [surgery].