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Surgery is not the first-line treatment option for patients with radiation proctitis.However it is usually reserved as a last resort for patients with refractory symptoms and complications. | Surgery is not the first-line treatment option for patients with radiation proctitis.However it is usually reserved as a last resort for patients with refractory symptoms and complications.<ref name="pmid8677984">{{cite journal| author=Babb RR| title=Radiation proctitis: a review. | journal=Am J Gastroenterol | year= 1996 | volume= 91 | issue= 7 | pages= 1309-11 | pmid=8677984 | doi= | pmc= | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=8677984 }}</ref> | ||
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Overview
Surgery is not the first-line treatment option for patients with radiation proctitis.However it is usually reserved as a last resort for patients with refractory symptoms and complications.[1]
Surgery
Surgery is not the first-line treatment option for patients with radiation proctitis as it can lead to severe post-operative complications which include:
- Significant bleeding
- Sepsis
- Inadvertent enterotomies
- Formation of fistula
- Short bowel syndrome due to extensive bowel resection
- Creation of blind loops due to excessively long bypassed segments
- Nonhealing of anastomoses performed on irradiated tissue
- Anastomotic leak with peritonitis sepsis
However it is usually reserved as a last resort for patients with:[2][3]
- Hx of unresponsiveness to medical or endoscopic treatment
- Hx of intractable symptoms/complications like stricture, pain, bleeding, perforation, or a fistula.
Surgical options for radiation proctitis include:
- excision
- urinary and fecal diversion (diverting stoma) and
- reconstruction of a coloanal J reservoir
References
- ↑ Babb RR (1996). "Radiation proctitis: a review". Am J Gastroenterol. 91 (7): 1309–11. PMID 8677984.
- ↑ Lucarotti ME, Mountford RA, Bartolo DC (1991). "Surgical management of intestinal radiation injury". Dis Colon Rectum. 34 (10): 865–9. PMID 1914719.
- ↑ Wu XR, Liu XL, Katz S, Shen B (2015). "Pathogenesis, diagnosis, and management of ulcerative proctitis, chronic radiation proctopathy, and diversion proctitis". Inflamm Bowel Dis. 21 (3): 703–15. doi:10.1097/MIB.0000000000000227. PMID 25687266.