CompletedNot Applicable

Laparoscopic Rectopexy for Rectal Prolapse

Denmark75 participantsStarted 2006-09

Plain-language summary

The aim of the present prospective, double-blind, randomized study is to study whether laparoscopic anterior mesh rectopexy is as good as laparoscopic posterior rectopexy with respect to obstructive defecation afterwards.

Who can participate

Age range18 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * Patients with full-thickness rectal prolapse for whom the department otherwise would offer abdominal rectopexy according to the department's recommendation. That is, patient being fit for an abdominal rectopexy procedure. Exclusion Criteria: * Age below 18 years. * Pregnancy or breast-feeding. * Patients who do not speak or read Danish. * Dementia or other psychiatric disease, i.e., inability to give informed consent. * Recurrence of rectal prolapse.

What they're measuring

The severity of obstructive defecation as graded by Wexner's incontinence- and constipation-score and Obstructed Defecation Syndrome score

Timeframe: 1 year postoperatively

Trial details

NCT IDNCT00946205

SponsorAarhus University Hospital

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2015-02

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