Pankaj Kumar Garg1,2, Aakanksha Goel1, Sneha Sharma1, Nilokali Chishi1, Manish Kumar Gaur1. 1. Department of Surgery, University College of Medical Sciences and Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, University of Delhi, Delhi, India. 2. Department of Surgical Oncology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, India.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: With the establishment of the oncological safety and due to the potential of low anterior resection (LAR) with sphincter salvage in improving the quality of life of patients with low and mid rectal cancers, it has become a popular treatment modality. A potential complication of the procedure is anastomotic dehiscence which results in a significant increase in postoperative morbidity and mortality. METHODS: A literature search for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that compared the role of protective diversion stoma with no stoma in LAR of the rectum was performed in PubMed. The effect size for dichotomous and continuous data was displayed as relative risk (RR) and weighted mean difference (WMD), respectively, with their corresponding 95% confidence intervals. A fixed effect or random effects model was used to pool the data according to the result of a statistical heterogeneity test. RESULTS: Five RCTs were identified and included in the analysis. These yielded 390 patients who had undergone a protective diversion ileostomy at the time of the surgery (LAR) and 378 who had not, resulting in a total of 768 patients, all of whom were included in the meta-analysis. The fashioning of an ileostomy significantly decreased the anastomotic leak (AL) rates (RR 0.33, 95% CI 0.21-0.51, p < 0.000) and the reoperation rates (RR 0.26, 95% CI 0.15-0.45, p < 0.000). CONCLUSION: This meta-analysis found that a protective diversion ileostomy in LAR for rectal cancer decreases the AL rates by one third and the reoperation rates by one fourth. Thus, we conclude that fashioning such a stoma is beneficial.
BACKGROUND: With the establishment of the oncological safety and due to the potential of low anterior resection (LAR) with sphincter salvage in improving the quality of life of patients with low and mid rectal cancers, it has become a popular treatment modality. A potential complication of the procedure is anastomotic dehiscence which results in a significant increase in postoperative morbidity and mortality. METHODS: A literature search for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that compared the role of protective diversion stoma with no stoma in LAR of the rectum was performed in PubMed. The effect size for dichotomous and continuous data was displayed as relative risk (RR) and weighted mean difference (WMD), respectively, with their corresponding 95% confidence intervals. A fixed effect or random effects model was used to pool the data according to the result of a statistical heterogeneity test. RESULTS: Five RCTs were identified and included in the analysis. These yielded 390 patients who had undergone a protective diversion ileostomy at the time of the surgery (LAR) and 378 who had not, resulting in a total of 768 patients, all of whom were included in the meta-analysis. The fashioning of an ileostomy significantly decreased the anastomotic leak (AL) rates (RR 0.33, 95% CI 0.21-0.51, p < 0.000) and the reoperation rates (RR 0.26, 95% CI 0.15-0.45, p < 0.000). CONCLUSION: This meta-analysis found that a protective diversion ileostomy in LAR for rectal cancer decreases the AL rates by one third and the reoperation rates by one fourth. Thus, we conclude that fashioning such a stoma is beneficial.
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