• 1. Department of Pediatric Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230032, P. R. China;
  • 2. Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230032, P. R. China;
LI Weisong, Email: 15955199807@126.com
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Objective To compare the efficacy of totally transanal endorectal pull-through and laparoscopic assistance endorectal pull-through in the treatment of Hirschsprung’s disease (HD).Methods PubMed, EMBASE, The Cochrane Library, CNKI, Wanfang, and VIP Database were searched to screen out the comparative studies published between January 1998 and May 2020 on the treatment of HD with totally transanal endorectal pull-through and laparoscopic assistance endorectal pull-through. Then two reviewers independently completed the literatures screening, data extraction, and quality evaluation. The Review Manager 5.3 software was used to combine the effect size of the postoperative effect indicators included in the literatures. Stata 14.0 software was used to perform Begg’s and Egger’s tests on the publication bias of the included literatures.Results A total of 8 clinical studies conforming to the standards were included and 702 cases of children undergoing HD radical resection were recorded, including 335 cases in the totally transanal endorectal pull-through group and 367 cases in the laparoscopic assistance endorectal pull-through group. Compared with the laparoscopic assistance endorectal pull-through group, the totally transanal endorectal pull-through group had an advantage in the incidence of postoperative faecal incontinence/soiling [OR=0.20, 95%CI was (0.07, 0.54), P=0.001], and the postoperative constipation recurrence rate was higher than the laparoscopic assistance endorectal pull-through group [OR=2.39, 95%CI was (1.05, 5.42), P=0.04]. There were no statistically significant differences between the two groups in terms of postoperative enterocolitis [OR=1.01, 95%CI was (0.59, 1.75), P=0.96], postoperative adhesion intestinal obstruction [OR=0.74, 95%CI was (0.28, 1.95), P=0.54], and postoperative anastomotic stenosis [OR=1.14, 95%CI was (0.51, 2.56), P=0.74].Conclusions Compared with laparoscopic assistance endorectal pull-through, the totally transanal endorectal pull-through can reduce the incidence of postoperative faecal incontinence/soiling, but the rate of recurrence of postoperative constipation is higher. The two surgical procedures for HD have similar incidences of postoperative enterocolitis, anastomotic stenosis, and adhesive intestinal obstruction.

Citation: WANG Yue, HUANG Ran, WU Wenyong, LI Tao, LI Weisong. Totally transanal endorectal pull-through versus laparoscopic assistance endorectal pull-through in treatment of Hirschsprung’s disease: a meta-analysis. CHINESE JOURNAL OF BASES AND CLINICS IN GENERAL SURGERY, 2021, 28(4): 430-437. doi: 10.7507/1007-9424.202006138 Copy

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