[Overnight surgery in proctology and anesthesia type: our experience on 320 patients].
BACKGROUND
Several evidences demonstrated that general anaesthetics associated with local anaesthesia show more advantages in comparison to spinal anaesthesia in proctological surgery. Aim of this study was to verify the efficacy of deep general anaesthesia associated with a loco-regional anesthesiological technique, in a grade population of 320 patients affected by haemorrhoidal disease and anal fissure.


METHODS
Patients with III-IV grade haemorrhoids and chronic posterior anal fissures has been eligible for this study while were excluded patients with history of allergic reaction or pharmacological hypersensibility to naropine, propofol o similar drugs. All patients (group A) were submitted to general anaesthesia associated with loco-regional anaesthesia, Control patients (group B) underwent spinal anaesthesia. At the end of all surgery procedure, it has been evaluated the presence of early and late complications according to our classification recently proposed.


RESULTS
A total of 320 patients were included, 240 submitted to haemorrhoidectomy for prolapse and 80 surgically treated for anal fissures. Anesthesia obtained has been satisfactory in the all treated patients and has not been observed permanent side-effects. Among the early post-operative complications it has been observed urinary retention in 9% of patients and pain in 30%. Among late post-operative complications it has been observed pain in 8% and urinary retention in 1% of patients. In two patients has been observed the development of abscess in correspondence of anaesthetic infiltration area. The local anaesthetical effect was present for a mean period of 4-8 hours.


CONCLUSIONS
Loco-regional anesthesiological technique with posterior block, associated to general anaesthesia, has been demonstrated efficacious for the treatment of the most frequent proctological pathologies. This method allowed a low incidence of early and late complications and a more fast resolution of clinical sequelae of the surgery.
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Dipartimento di Chirurgia Generale e Trapianti d'Organo, Paride Stefanini, Sapienza Università di Roma.
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Veltri
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Crispino
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000765:Anesthesia, Conduction; D000768:Anesthesia, General; D013505:Digestive System Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D005401:Fissure in Ano / Q000601:surgery*; D006484:Hemorrhoids / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged