Short-term outcomes after anterior stapling rectotomy using a single stapler device for rectocele

Figures & Tables

	Number (n)	Sum of total scor mean (SD)	P
Baseline	8	16.87 (2.69)	0.012 Statistically significant using a Wilcoxon signed-ranks test
3^rd month	8	8.50 (5.92)
Baseline	7	16.86 (2.91)	0.018 Statistically significant using a Wilcoxon signed-ranks test
6^th month	7	9.43 (5.72)
Baseline	7	16.86 (2.91)	0.063
12^th month	7	9.43 (5.91)

Question and response options	Score

	1	2	3	4
1. Medication to evacuate (enemas or suppositories)	Never	< 1/week	1-6/weeks	Everyday
2. Difficulties to evacuate	Never	< 1/week	1-6/weeks	Everyday
3. Digitation to evacuate	Never	< 1/week	1-6/weeks	Everyday
4. Return to toilet to evacuate	Never	< 1/week	1-6/weeks	Everyday
5. Feeling of incomplete evacuation	Never	< 1/week	1-6/weeks	Everyday
6. Straining/push to evacuate	Never	Sometimes	Often	Always
7. Time needed to evacuate	<5 min	6-10 min	11-20 min	>20 min
8. Lifestyle alteration	Never	Sometimes	Often	Always

Symptoms	Immediate	1^st month	3^rd month
Defecatory urgency	0	1	1
Acute urinary retention	1	0	0
Anal fissure	0	0	1

No.	Age	Sex	Defecographic	Operative time	MODS	MODS

			findings	(min)	Baseline	3^rdmo	6^thmo	12^thmo
1	54	F	Rectocele Intussusception	55	17	13	13	15
2	33	F	Rectocele Intussusception	45	11	2	2	16
3	47	F	Rectocele Intussusception	65	18	16	16	15
4	62	F	Rectocele Intussusception	55	17	1	-	-
5	61	F	Rectocele Intussusception	55	16	10	10	-
6	57	F	Rectocele	50	17	2	1	2
7	55	F	Rectocele	25	16	_-	_-	3
8	53	F	Rectocele Intussusception	55	20	11	11	7
9	41	F	Rectocele	55	19	13	13	8