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## Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare the clinical outcomes of loop and divided colostomies in patients with anorectal malformations (arm). ## Methods: We performed a retrospective cohort study reviewing the medical records of all patients with arm managed with diverting colostomies between 2000 and 2010 at our institution. independent variables and outcomes of stoma complications were analyzed by parametric measures and logistic regression. ## Results: One hundred forty-four patients managed with a colostomy for arm were evaluated (37.5% females, 50.7% loop, 49.3% divided). the incidence of patients with loop and divided colostomies who developed stoma-related complications was 31.5 and 15.5%, respectively (p=0.031). the incidence of prolapse was 17.8 and 2.8%, respectively (p=0.005). multivariable-logistic regression controlling for other significant independent variables found loop colostomies to be positively associated with the development of a stoma complication (or 3.13, 95%ci (1.09, 8.96), p=0.033). when individual complications were evaluated, it was only stoma prolapse that was more likely in patients with loop colostomies (or 8.75, 95%ci (1.74, 44.16), p=0

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Author

Omar Oda; Dafydd Davies; Kimberly Colapinto; J. Ted Gerstle

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; W. B. Saunders Co., Ltd.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0022-3468)

Published

2014

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)