Ayman Refaat1, Ahmed EL-Marakby, Ahmed Farghaly2, Hossam ELShamaa3, Mohamed Ibrahim4, Mohamed Hamed Salem5
Ahmed Gamal Eldin Fouad¹, Ahmed Faraghaly¹, Ahmed Elmarakby¹, Fatma Zeinhom²
1Amr Saleh El Bahaey, 2Ahmed Balboula
Fouad S. Fouad1 and Abdelrahman Mohamed2
1Mohamed Salama, 1Heba G.M. Mahmoud, 2Marwa Nabil, 1Mohamed Hassan
1Hebatallah G.M. Mahmoud, 1Mohamed Salama, 1John Wahib, 2Salem Eid, 1Omaya Nassar
Wael Ahmed Ghanem, Ahmed Bassiouny Radwan
Wael Ghanem
Sherif M. Mokhtar1 , Shady Elghazaly Harb1 , Hossam Hussein2 ,Shady Nabil Mashhour3
Shady Elghazaly Harb, Sherif M. Mokhtar, Sameh Mikhail
Osama G. Fahmy, Osama A. Radwan & Mohamed I. Monier
Ayman El Samadoni, Haitham A. Eldmarany and Amr El Bahaey
Salah M. Raslan MD and Hany M. Elbarbary MD, FRCS, FACS
Ayman El Samadoni1 , Haitham A.Eldmarany2
Hamdy A. Elhady
Hassan A. Abdallah1, Abd-El-Aal A. Saleem1, Osama A. AbdulRaheem1, Mohamed Yousef A2
Maged Rihan, MD, MRCS Mohamed M.Raslan ,MD
Mohamed Abd El-Monem Abd El-Salam Rizk, MD
Sherif Essam Tawfik MD, Mohamed Abd El-Monem Abd El-Salam Rizk MD, Abd elrahman Mohamed MD
Wael A Jumuah, MD; Yasser El Ghamrini, MD; Karim Sabry Abdel Samee, MD, MRCS (Ed)
Ahmed Sayed1,2, Hussein Elwan1 , Mostafa Elshal2, Ahmed Taha1,2
Resection and Primary Anastomosis without Colonic Lavage in NonMalignant Left Colon Emergency Conditions, Is it a Safe
Background: Intra-operative colonic lavage is a widespread procedure introduced to decompress and
clean the colon of its faecal load during emergency surgery of the left colon in order to perform a safe
anastomosis. Objective: We planned our study not to perform colonic lavage in the included cases in order
to figure out its feasibility and safety on single stage resection and anastomosis of the left colon in nonmalignant emergency surgeries in a series of patients according to certain inclusion criteria. Patients and
methods: this is a prospective study that included 38(thirty eight) patients with acute, non-malignant,
obstruction or perforation of the left colon admitted to the emergency department, Kasr Alaini University
hospital, faculty of medicine, Cairo University between October 2014 and October 2016. They underwent a
one stage resection and anastomosis without colonic lavage. The exclusion criteria for anastomosis were:
haemodynamic instability and American Society of Anaesthesiologists (ASA) grade >3. Anastomotic leak
and surgical site infection were the main outcome measures. Results: all the 38 patients were subjected to
a single stage left colon resection and anastomosis being performed without colonic lavage (21 with
obstruction and 17 with perforation). The leak rate was 7.8 % (3 cases) out of the 38 patients that were
evidenced by bowel contents in the drainage fluid. A 21 % morbidity rate was recorded due to 8 surgical
site infections. Conclusion: The procedure is safe. The low morbidity and mortality of one stage resection
and anastomosis without colonic lavage of the left colon can justify future prospective studies including a
larger number of patients to compare its results with those obtained by one stage resection with colonic
lavage.
Keywords: Colon resection, obstruction, perforation, anastomosis, intra-operative colonic lavage.