After resection of the distal part of the colon due to different pathological reasons, a colostomy is common practice. Patients with a colostomy have no control over the evacuation of the colon content. Currently, they have to wear a colostomy bag, or to perform irrigation procedures in order to empty the colon. An alternative for emptying the colon could be the use of electrically induced colo...

PURPOSE This paper presents an analysis of surgical treatment costs for left colostomy, aiming to calculate a medium cost per procedure and to identify the means to maximize the economic management of this type of surgicale procedure. MATERIALS AND METHOD A retrospective study was conducted on a group of 8 patients hospitalized in the 4th Surgery Department,Emergency University Hospital Bucha...

BACKGROUND The aim of this systematic review was to compare the safety and efficacy of dynamic graciloplasty with colostomy for the treatment of faecal incontinence. METHODS Two search strategies were devised to retrieve literature from the Medline, Current Contents, Embase and Cochrane Library databases up until November 1999. Inclusion of papers depended on a predetermined protocol, indepen...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this literature review was to analyse the advantages and disadvantages of a traditional ileal conduit (IC) with separate colostomy technique compared to the outcomes of a double-barrelled wet colostomy (DBWC) technique. The former technique results in the formation of two stomas, and the latter results in the formation of one stoma. METHODS PubMed was searched electron...

Construction of an enterostomy is a common procedure in pediatric surgery. However, caring for the child with a stoma is challenging for parents in developing countries. Modern devices such as colostomy bags and accessories are expensive and not readily available. The purpose of this study was to describe methods of effluent collection and peristomal skin protection used by the mothers of colos...

BACKGROUND The most common injury to indicate definitive stoma is rectal cancer. Despite advances in surgical treatment, the abdominoperineal resection is still the most effective operation in radical treatment of malignancies of the distal rectum invading the sphincter and anal canal. Even with all the effort that surgeons have to preserve anal sphincters, abdominoperineal amputation is still ...

Objective: In this study; the rate of complications and mortality of colostomy procedure were investigated in children. Material and Method: Ninety six patients who have undergone colostomy procedure in our clinic between 1996 and 2012 due to different reasons were analyzed retrospectively. Results: Fifty-seven of the patients were male and 39 were female. Their ages ranged from 1 day to 13 (me...

It is now generally accepted that proximal colostomy, temporary or permanent, is ineffective in the treatment of diverticular disease unless followed by resection. Pemberton et al. (1947) reported that 30% of the cases treated by a permanent colostomy were not controlled and that 70% of those whose colostomies were closed without resection had serious recurrent disease. Lloyd-Davies (1953) reco...

BACKGROUND A colostomy is known to impact negatively on a patient's quality of life (QOL). Concerns include incontinence, rectal discharge, gas, difficulties in returning to work, decreased sexual activity, and travel and leisure challenges. Reports have described QOL outcomes in cancer patients with colostomies and inflammatory bowel syndrome with colostomies, but little has been written regar...