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40 Chronic andRefractory Anal Fissure: What Are theTreatment Options?
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LIS is superior to non-operative management in
achieving a sustained cure. The incontinence risk with
LIS is 3.4– 4.4%. Open and closed LIS are equally
efcacious with a moderate quality of evidence. CCBs
are more effective than GTN with lower rates of HA,
but with low quality of evidence, especially due to short
Conclusions
and lowest no-success rate) but has an incontinence risk
over 9%. A stepwise approach is recommended. Firstly,
medical treatment is safe with few side effects. In
persistent CAF, ssurectomy and/or BT may be used
to address both ssure scarring and sphincter
hypertonicity. In patients with treatment failure, LIS
may be used but patients should be selected carefully to
minimize risk of postoperative incontinence. Anoplasty
and/or ssurectomy and BT may be good
alternatives. Anal dilatation had the highest
incontinence risk exceeding 18% and should be
abandoned in clinical practice.
follow-up times in prior studies.
AAF is associated with similar rates of wound
complications and unhealed ssure as LIS, but with
lower incontinence rates.
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44 RCTs 3268 NR LIS is the most effective treatment (highest healing rate
Studies, n &
Study Type Pt, n Intervention: n
Databases used;
time period
(PubMed);
1/1975–
10/7/2015
Yr
Ebinger 2017 Medline
First Author
Non-surgical: 9456.
12,062 Surgical: 2606.
Surgical: 31
RCTs.
Non-
surgical: 117
RCTs.
2017.
Medline;
1950– 1/18/2017.
EMBASE;
1/17/2017.
Nelson 2017 Cochrane; Issue 3,
LIS: 150
300 AAF: 150
2 RCTs, 2
retrospective
ClinicalTrials.gov
and ICTRP; up to
CINAHL,
3/7/2017.
Sahebally 2018 PubMed/Medline,
studies
EMBASE,
Cochrane;
Inception to
1/2017
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Conclusions
DTZ should be considered as the rst line non-
operative treatment for CAF.DTZ and GTN have
comparable healing rates, but DTZ is superior in regards
LIS has the highest healing rate at 8 weeks but with a
small risk of causing permanent incontinence. Topical
nitrates and BT also have reasonable results. Ultimately,
management of CAF should be tailored to the patient.
As a generalization, topical therapies should be tried
rst, followed by ssurectomy with/without BT and/
or AAF, before LIS.
to HA and late recurrence rates.
are an effective treatment for anal ssure in terms of
healing and pain reduction compared to placebo, but it
has a signicant risk of HA. DTZ is marginally better
than GTN for healing; however, the certainty of
evidence is very low. CCBs are less likely to cause HA
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compared to topical nitrates. Further studies are required
to establish the effectiveness of CCBs compared to
placebo.
9 RCTs 756 DTZ: 385
Studies, n &
Study Type Pt, n Intervention: n
Databases used;
time period
Yr
(continued)
Nevins 2020 Medline, Embase,
First Author
Table 40.3
DTZ: 44
GTN: 371
PubMed, Scopus,
Google Scholar;
Since 1/2000
Minoxidil 44
9 RCTs 775 Nitrates: 206
Cochrane, Scopus;
1/2000– 2/8/2020
Boland 2020 PubMed,
BT: 132
LIS: 349
37 RCTs 2888 NR There is low certainty evidence that topical nitrates
EMBASE,
Scopus, Cochrane;
NR
Jin 2022 Medline,
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Conclusions
LIS had the highest healing rates and should be
considered as the denitive treatment after failed
initial therapy with BT or medical therapies. BT was
equally effective compared to medical treatment.
AAF shows similar effectiveness compared to LIS, but
more studies are needed to evaluate its efcacy.
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BT + Med: 84.
BT: 714.
Studies, n &
Study Type Pt, n Intervention: n
69 RCTs 6242 Med: 1935.
Databases used;
time period
EMBASE,
Cochrane;
Yr
First Author
Jin 2022 Medline,
Self-massage: 25.
Anal dilation: 158.
Anal dilation + Med: 16.
Sphincterolysis: 41.
AAF: 70.
1/1/1990–
2/15/2021
AAF + LIS: 50.
Fissurectomy: 30.
pLIS: 93.
LIS: 2989.
toxin injection, LIS Lateral internal sphincterotomy, AAF Anal advancement ap, CAF Chronic anal ssure, DARE Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects,
HTA Health Technology Assessment, CCCG The Cochrane Colorectal Cancer Group Controlled Trials Register, Cochrane The Cochrane Central Register of
Controlled Trials, ICTRP World Health Organization’s Internet clinical trial portal, Med Medical therapy, pLIS Partial lateral internal sphincterotomy
Abbreviations: Yr Year, NR Not reported, Pt Patients, RCT Randomized controlled trial, DTZ Diltiazem, GTN Glyceryl trinitrate, HA Headache, BT Botulinum
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ssure, including ber supplementation with appropriate water intake and stool softeners to ensure regular bowel movements and sitz baths for symptomatic relief.
Initial management of CAF is usually with medical therapy as this approach is safe with few side effects, especially given the concern for anal incontinence with sphincterotomy. A systematic review and meta-analysis including 37 studies with 2888 patients to evaluate the efcacy of topical treatments for anal ssures found that topical diltiazem and topical nifedipine are both better at achieving ssure heal­ing than topical glyceryl trinitrate (GTN). In addition, there was a signicantly higher risk of headaches with GTN compared to placebo or topical CCB.There have been more studies comparing GTN to placebo than for CCB to placebo; these studies have demonstrated that GTN is more effective at healing anal ssures and reducing pain compared to placebo, but this was not found in the three studies that compared topical CCB to placebo. Of note, this systematic review and meta- analysis did include patients with both acute and chronic anal ssures, and the studies were noted to have high heterogeneity and signicant publication bias [3]. A 2017 sys­tematic review including 117 RCTs studying non-surgical therapies with 9456 patients had similar results. This study demonstrated that topical CCB are more effective than GTN with decreased risk of headaches, but with a low grade of evi­dence, mainly due to limited follow-up times in the included studies [4].
An RCT by Khan etal. studying 184 patients with CAF randomized half the patients to treatment with 0.2% topical GTN and the other half to 2% topical diltia­zem. After 1month of treatment, 80% of patients treated with diltiazem achieved ssure healing which was signicantly greater than the 62% who achieved healing with GTN.There was a higher incidence of patients who had resolution of perianal pain with diltiazem at 73% compared to GTN at 63%, but this did not reach statisti­cal signicance [5].
These results are similar to the RCT by Shrestha etal. studying 90 patients ran­domized evenly to treatment with 2% GTN and 0.5% nifedipine [6]. This study found an 83% healing rate with nifedipine use at 8weeks which was signicantly higher than the 60% of patients who had ssure healing using GTN.There was also a signicantly lower rate of ssure recurrence in 6months with nifedipine com­pared to GTN (24% and 18%, respectively). 17% of patients with GTN complained of headache compared to 7% in the nifedipine group, which led to poor compliance among the GTN users [6].
Alternative topical treatment that have not yet been extensively studied include minoxidil. A 2020 study by Emile etal. looking at 30 patients treated with 5% min­oxidil and 32 patients treated with 0.2% GTN showed a signicantly higher rate of healing with minoxidil at 77% compared to 47% with GTN, as well as a shorter duration to healing and fewer adverse effects. However, the patients treated with GTN had a signicantly lower perianal pain score compared to those using minox­idil [7].
Another topical therapy that has not been proposed, but not widely studied for the management of CAF is topical tocopherol acetate. Ruiz-Tovar etal. studied 160 patients evenly divided into two groups treated with 100% tocopherol acetate and
0.4% GTN. Compared to the group treated with GTN, those managed with
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tocopherol acetate had a signicantly higher cure rate (87% vs 66%), higher resolu­tion of pain (88% vs. 70%), and lower recurrence rate at 16weeks after completing the treatment course (3% vs. 13%). In the GTN arm, there were 28% of patients who had mild to moderate headaches and 18% with severe, incapacitating head­aches while none of the patients in the tocopherol acetate group reported this side­effect [8]. Due to the limited number of studies evaluating the safety and efcacy of topical tocopherol acetate, it is not yet an accepted treatment for CAF, but it remains a promising area for future research.
Although GTN has been more extensively studied than CCB, it appears that topi­cal CCB are superior at treating CAF with fewer intolerable side-effects and lower recurrence rates. However, medical treatment of CAF is limited by a signicant risk of symptom recurrence compared to other therapies such as BT or surgical proce­dures [9].
BT injection represents a step between management with topical agents and sur­gical treatment, but the dosage and the injection protocol has not yet been well­established, and it is debatable if it offers any signicant benet over medical therapy. The dosages of BT injected according to various studies range from 20IU to 150IU [10, 11]. The protocol for internal sphincter BT injection is quite variable with some surgeons inltrating BT at the 3 and 9 o’clock positions, other surgeons doing so on each side of the anterior midline or posterior midline, and still others injecting it at the four perianal quadrants [10, 12, 13]. Some surgeons inject BT in the intersphincteric groove whereas others inject it in the internal sphincter muscles. Therefore, the technique and dosage for BT injection is quite heterogeneous which makes it difcult to interpret prior studies.
A meta-analysis including six RCTs with 393 patients comparing BT to topical nitrates for the treatment of CAF showed lower incidences for incomplete ssure healing and ssure recurrence with BT compared to topical nitrates, but these rates did not reach statistical signicance [14]. There was a higher rate of total side effects with topical nitrates but patients who underwent BT injection had an increased risk of transient anal incontinence [14]. A 2022 systematic review with network meta­analysis by Jin et al. including 69 RCTs also failed to demonstrate a signicant difference in ssure healing between BT and topical medications [9].
A 2020 RCT by Nour etal. compared 48 patients undergoing BT injection to 48 patients undergoing partial or tailored lateral internal sphincterotomy (pLIS) [13]. The BT group had 80IU inltrated in the internal anal sphincter at the 1:00, 5:00, 7:00 and 11:00 positions. In the BT group, postoperative pain was lower, but the pLIS group had a higher rate of healing (92% vs. 77%) and a lower rate of recur­rence (2% vs. 14%). The BT group had a higher rate of early postoperative inconti­nence at 17%, but symptoms had all resolved by 6months post-treatment. In the pLIS group, there were 10% who developed incontinence, but 4% unfortunately had persistent gas incontinence after 6months. The authors concluded that BT is safer than pLIS but is less effective and its dose needs to be adjusted. pLIS is more effec­tive but preoperative assessment of anal sphincter tone is essential [13]. Unlike this study, a systematic review and meta-analysis published in 2017 found lower rates of anal incontinence with both LIS and BT at up to 4.4% and 2.3%, respectively [4].
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It is possible that the duration of CAF symptoms may also play a factor in the effectiveness of different treatment modalities. A study by Gandomkar etal. ran­domized 99 patients with CAF to undergoing pLIS or receiving combination ther­apy with BT injection and topical diltiazem ointment for 6weeks [11]. The overall healing rate in the 1-year follow-up period was signicantly higher for the pLIS group at 94% vs. 65% in the BT with diltiazem group. The overall recurrence rate was 10% in the combination therapy group while none who had pLIS had recur­rence. Incontinence was higher in the pLIS group. By the end of the study period, all the patients with incontinence in the combination therapy group had resolution of their symptoms, but 2% in the pLIS group had persistent incontinence. The authors performed an interesting subanalysis based on duration of CAF symptoms. Patients with symptoms for 12months were found to have a 100% healing rate in both treatment arms, and none of these patients suffered a recurrent ssure. Patients with CAF for >12 months had signicantly greater success with undergoing pLIS.Therefore, the authors suggested that BT with diltiazem may be just as effec­tive as pLIS in patients with CAF symptoms for 12months. Patients with CAF for a longer duration should consider pLIS instead due to its higher rate of healing.
Surgical options for CAF include LIS, AAF, anal dilatation, and ssurectomy. LIS remains the gold standard for CAF treatment with the highest rates of cure (88%– 100%) and the lowest rates of recurrence [15, 16]. A meta-analysis by Acar etal. including 550 patients who underwent treatment with LIS, pLIS, 2% diltiazem and 0.2% GTN showed the highest rates of healing with sphincterotomy (93%, 86%, 69% and 63%, respectively) [17]. The results for achieving resolution of peri­anal pain were similar. The recurrence rates were only available for those who underwent sphincterotomy and was 4% for LIS and 12% for pLIS.Both sphincter­otomy groups had a 2% rate of incontinence but all the patients in the pLIS group had resolution of the incontinence by 6months. The authors concluded that medical therapy may be tried as the rst step and that pLIS could be considered as an effec­tive alternative therapy due to the decreased risk of incontinence compared to a standard LIS [17].
These results are similar to the ndings of a 2017 systematic review by Nelson etal. which actually studied all the treatment modalities for CAF and included 31 publications on surgical techniques and 117 on non-operative methods. They found that LIS is the most effective method of achieving sustained cure of CAF.Anal incontinence which is a feared side-effect with sphincterotomy was found to occur in up to 4.4% of patients. In addition, they found equivalent results with the open and closed techniques of performing an LIS. Manual anal dilation was found to have a lower rate of healing and higher rate of incontinence as 12% compared to LIS [4]. A 2021 RCT by Bara etal. comparing patients undergoing LIS with those undergoing anal dilatation and ssurectomy also noted signicantly higher rates of incontinence with the anal dilatation and ssurectomy [18]. When aiming to guar­antee the highest chances of perianal pain relief with the lowest risk of recurrence, LIS remains the gold standard [4].
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pLIS can be combined with AAF for the treatment of CAF as shown in a 2012 RCT by Magdy etal. which studied 150 patients with CAF randomized to treatment with LIS, V-Y advancement ap, or combined pLIS with V-Y advancement ap. The highest healing rate was achieved with the combined technique at 94% with the lowest rate of recurrence at 2% and a low rate of postoperative incontinence at 2% [15].
The current literature is limited in guiding management of atypical or recurrent anal ssures, as almost all the studies exclude patients with these characteristics. Recurrences after sphincterotomy may be due to incomplete division of the sphinc­ter muscle, so a repeat examination under anesthesia with completion of the sphinc­terotomy to the dentate line or repeat pLIS could be trialed in patients with normal or high anal sphincter tone [19]. An interesting retrospective study including 57 patients with recurrent anal ssures underwent repeat pLIS at the opposite side to the original sphincterotomy. The authors found that 98% of these patients achieved cure of their ssure with high patient satisfaction scores, and only 4% had postop­erative incontinence [20].
Patients who are inappropriate surgical candidates and have failed other thera­pies could be considered for transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) based on a 2015 RCT by Youssef etal. including 73 patients randomized to LIS and TENS [21]. In this study, 75% of patients in the TENS arm had improvement of their symptoms within one month of treatment compared to 100% in the LIS arm. However, the recurrence rate with TENS was signicantly higher at 41% compared to 3% in the LIS group [21].
Another option for patients who develop recurrent anal ssures after prior sphincterotomy, or for those with poor baseline anal sphincter tone or risk factors for postoperative incontinence, would be performing an AAF.Sahebally et al’s 2018 meta-analysis including 2 RCTs and 2 retrospective studies showed similar rates of ssure healing and wound complications between LIS and AAF.In addi­tion, AAF was associated with lower rates of incontinence. The included studies lacked enough data to analyze recurrence rates; therefore, the authors were unable to comment on the sustainability of ssure healing [22]. However, a prior RCT comparing LIS with AAF noted a signicantly higher rate of recurrence at 22% with AAF compared to 4% with LIS [15]. Since AAF does not address the contri­bution of anal sphincter hypertonia to the development of ssures and with previ­ous studies suggesting that there is a higher recurrence rate than with sphincterotomy, this technique may be more suitable for those without baseline increased anal sphincter tone or those who are at increased risk of developing postoperative issues with continence.
Further studies are needed to determine the dosing and injection protocol for BT, the order in which treatments should be performed for those with CAF, and the best treatment modalities for those with atypical, refractory, or recurrent ssures.
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Recommendations
1. Medical therapy is usually considered as the rst line step. Topical CCBs may be
a better medical treatment option than topical nitric oxide donors, especially because of the decreased patient compliance due to a signicant incidence of headaches with the latter.
– Moderate level of evidence; Weak recommendation
2. Surgical intervention with sphincterotomy offers the best healing rate and may
be used when anal ssures do not respond to nonoperative therapy. Anal sphinc­ter tone and risk factors for developing incontinence should be carefully assessed prior to consideration of sphincterotomy.
– High level of evidence; Strong recommendation.
Personal View
Chronic anal ssures can be quite debilitating for patients as they cause pain and bleeding. Moreover, many patients worry about cancer when they see bleeding associated with bowel movements. It is important for the treating physician to reas­sure the patient that the likelihood of a typical anal ssure harboring cancer is very low. It is also important to make sure that the patients are up to date with their screening colonoscopies depending on their age and colon cancer risk stratication when we evaluate the patient for an anal ssure.
Treatment of atypical CAFs is directed towards the etiology; we start with a biopsy of the ssure and the results guide the treatment. Treatment of typical s­sures is directed towards reduction of the tone of the internal anal sphincter. For typical CAFs, our practice is geared towards symptomatic relief of anal ssures and not towards healing, per se. We set this expectation up-front when we meet with the patient, and most often the patient shares this goal. Ideally, we want both bleeding and pain to resolve; however, if we can relieve the pain and the patient notices on and off anal outlet bleeding, we consider that as a success and as an acceptable endpoint in treatment of CAFs. We offer LIS as the initial treatment for patients (especially men) who are in severe pain and have failed conservative treatment at an outside facility. For all other typical CAFs we start treatment with sitz baths, ber supplementation, adequate water intake and topical CCBs (2% Nifedipine 3 times a day) for 2months. If this does not cause substantial improvement or complete reso­lution of symptoms, then we offer the patients BT injection. If the patient has had partial improvement and is not in distress, then continuing CCBs for another 2months is an excellent option. For those patients who need BT injection, we inject a total of 100units of BT: 30units are injected on either sides of the ssure into the internal anal sphincter muscle and 40units are injected into the internal anal sphinc­ter muscle opposite the anal ssure (i.e. if it is a posterior midline anal ssure, then we inject 30units into the internal anal sphincter muscle on either side of it and 40 units are injected in the anterior midline). After injecting BT, we advise the patient to continue using the topical CCBs and reassess them in 2months. If the
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patient has had partial improvement from the BT injection and is not in distress, then repeating BT injection is a reasonable option. If the symptoms have not sub­stantially improved or there has not been complete resolution of symptoms, then we discuss LIS; in our practice, we quote a 98% success rate with a 2% rate of inconti­nence to atus in the long term. In our practice, we perform LIS using a closed technique and tailor the length of the sphincterotomy to the length of the ssure. Any patient with a ssure-stula is best served with a ssure stulotomy with mar­supialization of the stula tract, as most often that is curative.
Rarely, some patients have atypical CAFs without increase in anal tone. Our initial approach of to treat these patients remains the same. We start with Sitz baths, ber supplementation, adequate water intake and topical CCB (2% Nifedipine 3 times a day) for 2months. However, if they fail to improve and are in pain, then we offer them an AAF as the surgical option.
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