Laparoscopy for Crohn's disease: A comprehensive exploration of minimally invasive surgical techniques.

World J Gastrointest Surg

Center for Difficult and Complicated Abdominal Surgery, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200072, China.

Published: October 2021

Background: Along with the unceasing progress of medicine, Crohn's disease (CD), especially complex CD, is no longer a taboo for minimally invasive surgery. However, considering its special disease characteristics, more clinical trials are needed to confirm the safety and feasibility of laparoscopic surgery for CD.

Aim: To investigate the safety and feasibility of laparoscopic enterectomy for CD, assess the advantages of laparoscopy over laparotomy in patients with CD, and discuss comprehensive minimally invasive surgical techniques in complex CD.

Methods: This study prospectively collected clinical data from patients with CD who underwent enterectomy from January 2017 to January 2020. It was registered in the Chinese clinical trial database with the registration number ChiCTR-INR-16009321. Patients were divided into a laparoscopy group and a traditional laparotomy group according to the surgical method. The baseline characteristics, operation time, intraoperative blood loss, temporary stoma, levels of abdominal adhesion, pathological characteristics, days to flatus and soft diet, postoperative complications, hospitalization time, readmission rate within 30 d, and hospitalization cost were compared between the two groups.

Results: A total of 120 eligible patients were enrolled into the pre-standardized groups, including 100 in the laparoscopy group and 20 in the laparotomy group. Compared with the laparotomy group, the postoperative hospitalization time in the laparoscopy group was shorter (9.1 ± 3.9 d 11.0 ± 1.6 d, < 0.05), the days to flatus were fewer (2.8 ± 0.8 d 3.5 ± 0.7 d, < 0.05), the days to soft diet were fewer (4.2 ± 2.4 d 6.2 ± 2.0 d, < 0.05) and the intraoperative blood loss was less (103.3 ± 80.42 mL 169.5 ± 100.42 mL, < 0.05). There were no statistically significant differences between the two groups in preoperative clinical data, operation time (149.0 ± 43.8 min 159.2 ± 40.0 min), stoma rate, levels of abdominal adhesion, total cost of hospitalization, incidence of postoperative complications [8.0% (8/100) 15.0% (3/20)], or readmission rate within 30 days [1.0% (1/100) 0.00 (0/20)].

Conclusion: Compared with laparotomy, laparoscopic enterectomy promotes the recovery of gastrointestinal function, shortens the postoperative hospitalization time, and does not increase the incidence of postoperative complications. Laparoscopic enterectomy combined with varieties of minimally invasive surgical techniques is a safe and acceptable therapeutic method for CD patients with enteric fistulas.

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