OBJECTIVE The aim of the study is to develop a instrumental method capable to achieve pulmonary air function test (spirometry) by assembling the spirometer mouthpiece to the laryngectomized patient's stoma. MATERIAL AND METHOD Our study was carried out in 33 laryngectomized patients (all male). The spirometer tests were done with a Datospir 92 by Sibelmed equipment, which consists of a dry Fl...

OBJECTIVE the objective in this study was to describe the strategies developed by digestive stoma patients to cope with their situation. METHOD a qualitative and descriptive study was undertaken, involving 21 stoma patients living in the provinces of Málaga and Granada (Spain). The informants were selected in accordance with criteria of appropriateness and diversity, through intentional sampl...

Healthy subjects with ileostomies (ileostomates) were fed six breakfasts of 5-100 g linseed oil. This lipid source was chosen so that linolenic acid could be used as a fatty acid probe. Phenol red was included in the meal so that mouth-to-stoma transit could be measured as the t 1/2 of phenol red. Ileostomy effluent was collected over 24 h and the dose of lipid ingested was related to lipid out...

Parastomal hernia is a common complication of ileal conduit formation. Mesh repair of parastomal hernia has lower rate of recurrence than nonmesh techniques but can be time-consuming to perform. The stapled mesh stoma reinforcement technique (SMART) is a novel method of rapidly constructing a reinforced stapled stoma. We report the first case utilising this technique in a urologic context. The ...

T his article aims to describe how scientific advances in silicone technology have affected the patient’s experience in stoma care and why this is important. Previous publications by White (2014a; b) described in detail the use of silicone technology to maintain healthy skin in stoma care. The prevention of skin damage by choosing products that have a sound research base provides patients with ...

results during the period from jan 2000 to dec 2011, at our center, 19 children less than eighteen years of age underwent urinary diversion with yang-monti’s catheterizable stoma. the indications for urinary diversion was neuropathic bladder in eight, exstrophy bladder in seven , valve bladder syndrome in three and persistent urethral stricture in one. none of the children found cic difficult d...

BACKGROUND Stoma formation is often complicated by early skin irritation and infection. Rates for local irritation are reported at 3–42% while peristomal infections and abscesses occur in 2–14.8% of cases. Intraoperative bowel content spillage is an avoidable risk factor.1 We describe a cost efficient method of minimising spillage and forcepselated bowel trauma using a Foley catheter. This tech...

Abstract Introduction Formation of intestinal stoma is a widely performed surgical procedure worldwide. It associated with variable complications which can impact physical and mental health the patient. The purpose this study to aspects (indications, complications, change in quality-of-life etc) make necessary recommendations for quality improvement patient experience better. Method included 15...

PURPOSE The aim of this study is to determine overall survival, disease-specific survival and stoma-free survival after treatment of squamous cell carcinoma of the anus with chemoradiotherapy followed by brachytherapy or electron boost in a recent cohort of patients. METHODS Fifty-two patients (median age 62 years) were treated with radical chemoradiotherapy (mitomycin C, infusional 5-fluorou...

BACKGROUND Parastomal hernia is a common complication of a colostomy. Ultimately, one-third of patients with a parastomal hernia will need surgical correction due to frequent leakage or life-threatening bowel obstruction or strangulation. However, treatment remains a challenge resulting in high recurrence rates. Two single center trials demonstrated that the frequency of parastomal hernias decr...