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Incontinence rate
Median
follow-up
(months) Healing rate Recurrence Rate
Number of
subjects
100 60%
22 59% 41%
pre vs post-
treatment: 0.67,
0.49
LIFT 498 69.1% 21.9% 1.6%
Procedure Population
Seifarth (2021) ERAF Crohn’s stula 55 6.3 47%
Stellingwerf (2018) ERAF High perianal stula 797 3–84 74.6% 25.6% 7.8%
Table 39.1 (continued)
Author (year)
Cryptoglandular
stula
LIFT-plug 117 94% 0 0
Wexner (2020) LIFT Transsphincteric
Han (2016) LIFT High TSF 118 6 83.9% 0 0
stula
Rojanasakul (2017) LIFT High TSF 71 60%
Low TSF 92%
Altomare (2009) Fibrin glue TSF 39 12 39.5% Wexner scores
TSF 25 87.5% 1.79, 5.1
Mid and High TSF 28 20.6 68% 32%
Seton (majority
cutting seton)
Fistulectomy
with seton
Oca (2011) 2-stage: (1)
followed by (2)
Fibrin glue
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Number of
subjects
Procedure Population
Author (year)
FIAT Trial (2021) Plug TSF 146 12 54%
146 55%
Surgeons
preference
Hansen (2019) Plug TSF 36 18 39% 26.3% 0%
Wilhelm (2017) FiLaC TSF 90 25.4 61.1% 0%
454 23.7 67.3% 1%
Low TSF 10 20% 0%
with TSF
Marref (2019) FiLaC High TSF 45 6.3 60% 0%
Elfekl (2020) FiLaC Fistula-in-ano 69%
98 13 73.5%
Meinero (2011) VAAFT Fistula-in-ano 75.5%
788 9 85.8% 14.2%
with high TSF
with high TSF
Meinero (2020) VAAFT Fistula-in-ano 96 36 83.3%
Emile (2017) VAAFT Fistula-in-ano 66.5%
a
transsphincteric stula (TSF)
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Table 39.2 Comparison of available approaches for management of transsphincteric stulas
Patient population Patients with transsphincteric
stulas
Intervention Comparator Fistulotomy Sphincter-saving
approaches
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Outcomes studied Healing rate,
continence
Results
Fistulotomy
After the anatomy of a stula is determined, a stulotomy is performed by cannulat­ing the stula and dividing the overlying tissue with electrocautery. The wound is then left to heal by secondary intention after either fulguration, electrocautery, or marsupilizing the stulous tract. Historically, a stulotomy is appropriate for stu­las below the dentate line, including supercial, intersphincteric, and low trans­sphincteric stulas. Success rates are generally high, however fecal incontinence rates are elevated in stulotomies performed for complex or high transsphincteric stulas.
Abramowitz in 2015 performed a prospective multi-center trial and performed seton placement and 2-stage stulotomy for patients with high transsphincteric s­tulas. They found a statistically signicant increase in both the Wexner score (median score 1 pre-procedure and 4 at 1-year follow-up) and an increase in the Vaizey score (1.5 pre-procedure vs 4 at 1-year follow-up). The median scores in the 1-stage stulotomy group were not statistically signicant (Wexner 1 vs 2 at one­year follow-up; Vaizey 2 vs 3 at one-year follow-up) [1]. Papaconstantinou 2017 study found a stulotomy an effective way to manage a low or mid-transsphincteric stula in patients with Crohn’s disease. However, 20% of these patients demon­strated incontinence which was dened as uncontrolled passage of atus or <1 tea­spoon passage of mucus in a 24-h period [2]. Wang etal’s report is concurrent with the existing literature as they had no stula recurrence following seton then stu­lotomy for low transsphincteric stulas. They also reported 0% incontinence rates however no validated questionnaires and scoring systems were utilized [3]. Overall, stulotomy in one-stage, two-stage, or followed by seton placement is appropriate for patients with short tract stulas and overall should be avoided in complex or high-transsphincteric stulas given the increased risk of incontinence.
Seton
Two types of setons have been described to date. The rst is a loose, non-cutting seton whose goal is to promote drainage, control sepsis, and allow for tract brosis. In higher risk patients, they can be left for years and used as denitive treatment; while for others it can be used in preparation for a secondary procedure. Loose setons are well tolerated with minimal risk. A cutting seton is serially tightened over time to bring the stulous tract closer to the skin. The goal is to create a brous tract
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under the skin in an effort to preserve sphincter-function, although incontinence rates are reported to be increased compared to non-cutting setons.
Setons continue to be used with good success rates, even for high transsphinc­teric stulas. The reported healing rate at 12-months was reported to be 97.2% in a series of 72 patients when a cutting seton (silk size 2) was used with only 2 patients (2.8%) recurring at 6-months. Of the 72 patients, 66.7% required two additional procedures for seton tightening and 33.3% required three procedures for tightening. Flatus incontinence occurred in 1 patient (1.4%) however no standardized question­naires were used. Additionally, pruritus with perianal discharge was noted in 4 patients (6.9%) and was not considered to be incontinence [4]. This is in contrast to a large series review of 1460 patients that underwent a cutting seton. The authors report an overall incontinence rate of 12% and signify that an increased rate of incontinence was shown when location of the internal stula opening was more proximal in the anal canal [5]. Alternatively, the use of a loose seton in a series of 251 patients with a high TSF had a near 90% healing rate with 10.3% recurring, however, half the subjects in their study had undergone previous surgery for stula­in- ano [6].
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Endorectal Advancement Flap
The endorectal advancement ap (ERAF) is typically used as a second-stage proce­dure following either seton placement or stulectomy. With this procedure, a trapezoidal- shaped ap is created which includes the mucosa, submucosa, and a few bers of the internal sphincter muscle. The internal opening of the stula tract is then sutured closed and covered with the ap.
Perhaps one of the best long-term studies to recently be published on the use of ERAF was in a series of 115 patients with a transsphincteric stula with a mean follow-up of 13years. They reported a recurrence rate of 23.8%, with 90% of the recurrences occurring within the rst year. Recurrence was dened as recurrent stula tract, but also included presence of an abscess which may partially explain this higher recurrence rate. Taking this into account, the overall success rate was
76.2%. When assessing incontinence using the Wexner score, overall continence worsened in 16.9% of cases with a mean score of 0.78 pre-procedure compared to
1.16>10years at the conclusion of the study. When specically assessing patients with normal continence pre-procedure, overall incontinence was documented in
10.5% of cases after ERAF [7]. This data is similar to a recent meta-analysis of 30 studies which included ERAF for the treatment of high perianal stulas in 797 patients. They reported an overall success of 74.6%, recurrence in 25.6%, and an incontinence rate of 7.8%. The pooled data had a variation in follow-up which ranged from 3–84months; however, a subgroup analysis of 12 studies with a mini­mum follow-up of 12-months demonstrated an overall success rate of 73.6% [8]. Other reported data continue to demonstrate the poor healing rates with ERAF in patients whose etiology for their stula is due to Crohn’s disease with 47% healed, compared to 60% in non-Crohn’s patients, although this did not reach statistical signicance (p=0.088) [9].
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Ligation ofIntersphincteric Fistula Tract
The ligation of intersphincteric stula tract (LIFT) procedure was designed as a total sphincter-preserving technique rst described in 2007. It is used as a second stage procedure after the stula tract has matured, either with or without a seton. In this procedure, the stula tract is cannulated with a probe, then an incision is made over the intersphincteric groove and dissected down to the level of the stula tract. Once the tract is circumferentially isolated, it is suture ligated and divided sharply without dividing the sphincter complex. Historically, LIFT is not used for very high stula tracts due to the difculty in isolating the intersphincteric plane.
In a 2016 study, Han etal. performed a randomized prospective study comparing LIFT vs LIFT with addition of a porcine plug placed into the curetted stula tract. The healing rate was 83.9% healing in the LIFT group and 94% in the LIFT-plug group. There was no signicant difference in the Wexner scores pre- and post­operatively and they ranged from 0 to 1 at 6-months post-op. They concluded that LIFT is an effective surgical technique with low impact on fecal incontinence [10]. However, these remarkable results were not replicated by Wexner’s group who reported a 41% recurrence rate. Of 40 patients who had a pre-operative MRI, they stratied this data into laterality of the stula tract and concluded that posterior transsphincteric stula tracts carried the highest recurrence rates (5/7, 71%) com­pared to an anterior track (1/9, 11.1%) [11]. A more recent study by the creator of the LIFT procedure reported their ten-year experience of using the procedure. Of the 251 patients included, 56% had a low transsphincteric stula and 6% had a high TSF.Of these, the primary healing rate was excellent in the low TSF at 92% and only 60% in high TSF.Of the 31 patients with an unhealed stula regardless of clas­sication, following either one or two repeat procedures (re-LIFT, stulotomy, curettage, or spontaneous healing), only 2 of the 251 patients remained unhealed. The overall healing rate after primary surgery and reoperation was 99.2% [12].
Fibrin Sealant
Fibrin sealants were approved for use by the FDA in 1998 for the treatment of peri­anal stula. Its primary benet serves as having a minimal risk to prole given that there is no manipulation to the sphincter complex with brin administration. However, many insurance companies will not cover these expensive products given their reported low success rates. Fibrin sealants are not recommended as a rst-line therapy, however given their low risk prole, they may be suitable when other surgi­cal options are not achievable.
A 2009 randomized crossover trial was performed comparing setons to brin glue. This study was terminated early based on interim analysis given the high fail­ure rates seen with brin administration. At 3-months, 87.5% of patients with a TSF who had a seton placed were healed compared to 38% in the brin arm. Of those who failed in the brin arm, 8 of the 23 went on to receive a second brin injection and 4/8 (50%) healed. The remaining 18/23 went on to have a seton placed and
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10/23 (60%) healed. This study did include anal manometry results and found a poorer score in the seton compared to the brin group. However, a majority of the setons used in this group were cutting setons. They concluded that the higher suc­cess rate with seton is counterbalanced by the higher incontinence rate and brin should be considered for patients at higher risk for fecal incontinence [13].
Higher success rates with brin are seen when it is not used as the primary treat­ment modality. A 2011 study performed a stulectomy with seton in 28 consecutive patients followed by seton removal and brin administration 12.5months after the rst procedure. By 21months, 19/28 (68%) patients healed, of which 9 recurred. They demonstrate that brin may serve a complimentary role in the long-term treat­ment of TSF [14].
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Plugs
Biosynthetic stula plugs are inserted into the stula tract and encourage tissue in­growth and healing to close the tract. They have wide rates of healing however do not alter incontinence given no disruption of the sphincter occurs.
The Fistula-in-ano trial (FIAT) in 2009 was commissioned to perform a random­ized control trial evaluating plug use versus surgeon preference. The results of the FIAT trial were reported in 2021. 304 subjects were recruited from 45 centers and randomized in a 1:1 ratio to plug versus surgeon’s preference. At 12-months, 54% of stulas in the plug arm were healed compared to 55% in the surgeon’s preference arm. A 12-month MRI was also performed in 86% of patients and the healing rate judged by MRI was 49% for plug and 57% for surgeon’s preference, though this was not statistically signicant. There was also no difference in the incontinence scores between the two groups at 12-months. These comparable results with a higher cost procedure led to the FIAT trials conclusion that plugs are not a cost­effective treatment for anal stulas in the UK NHS [15]. These results were similar to a prior study which reported outcomes of 36 patients who had a plug inserted. The initial healing rate was 52.8%, however by 18-months when adjusting for recur­rence rate, the overall success rate was 39% [16]. These data demonstrate that plugs should not be the treatment of choice for TSF.
Fistula Laser Closure
Fistula laser closure (FiLaC) is a new sphincter-preserving technique developed in 2011 by Wilhelm etal. to be used in patients who were at high risk of inconti­nence after stulotomy [17]. The technique utilizes a radial laser probe to burn the stula tract. This circumferential heating works by obliterating and sealing the stula tract.
After developing the procedure, Wilhelm reported his ve-year experience with FiLaC in a series of 117 patients, 90 of whom had a TSF. They achieved a 61% primary healing rate, and a secondary healing rate of 88.9%, although only 5/31
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secondary procedures were repeat FiLaC [18]. A separate 2019 prospective study reported that the only predictive factor for success with FiLaC is for high TSF’s. The rate of healing in low TSF’s were low at 20% compared to 60% for high TSF.A 2020 meta-analysis on 7 articles encompassing 454 patients was also performed to evaluate the efcacy of FiLaC [19]. 314/454 patients had a TSF.At a median fol- low-up of 23.7months, 65% of patients achieved healing after primary FiLaC for all types of stulas. They did not stratify healing rates based on stula type. Notably, of the 158 patients who failed in the study, 97% did not achieve primary healing while only 3% had recurrence [20].
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Video-Assisted Anal Fistula Treatment
Video-assisted anal stula treatment (VAAFT) is a novel technique rst described in 2006 [21]. The technique is performed by inserting a stuloscope into the exter­nal opening. The internal opening and secondary tracts are then identied. These tracts are disrupted using electrocautery and the necrotic debris is removed using continuous irrigation and an endobrush. Finally, the internal opening is closed using either suture, an advancement ap, or an endostapler.
The outcomes of VAAFT were rst published by Meinero and Mori in 2011 who reported their outcomes on a series of 98 patients, where 76% of the patient popula­tion had a high trans-sphincteric stula. These patients achieved a primary healing rate of 73.5% by 6-months [21]. Meinero also recently published 3-year outcomes on patients undergoing VAAFT in 2020. This was a different patient population from their original study, and they again had convincing results. By 3-years, 80/96 (83.3%) of patients achieved healing of their stula [22]. These results were cor­roborated by a meta-analysis performed in 788 patients, 66.5% of whom had a high or complex FIA.At a median follow-up of 9-months, 14.2% of patients had a recur­rence with a heal rate of 85.8%. Interestingly, when stratied by type of closure used for the internal opening, the highest recurrence rate occurred after advance­ment ap (25%), followed by suture-closure (17.7%), then stapler (15.3%) [23]. This data demonstrates VAAFT as being a promising management option for the treatment of stulas in the future.
Conclusion andPersonal View
One of the difculties in evaluating studies related to the treatment of TSFs are that many of the patients have had one or more prior surgical procedures prior to study enrollment. Additionally, outcomes are not all dened the same. For example, patients’ outcomes will be reported as “primary healing” based on the study inter­vention rather than accounting for the prior stula procedures they have received. The denition of fecal or stool incontinence also vary among studies, although the use of the Wexner and Vaizey scores provide an objective measure that help allevi­ate this issue.
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In our practice, the approach to TSF depends on the length of the stula tract and patients’ current anatomy and sphincter function. Overall, after control of the initial infection and possible sepsis, our goal for subsequent procedures is to balance the risk of fecal incontinence with the risk of recurrence while addressing the patients’ needs. Our initial approach includes either an MRI of the pelvis or an exam under anesthesia to delineate the stula tract. During an exam under anesthesia, after delineation of the stula tract, we may concurrently proceed with either a simple stulotomy if the tract is short and supercial or with a placement of a draining seton if the stula tract is long and complex. A draining seton may stay for a period of 8–12weeks and then we will proceed with either a LIFT or ERAF procedure. Our preference is ERAF over LIFT when the stula tract is long and complex; how­ever, studies demonstrate that results are equivalent between the two procedures.
At this juncture, complex TSF still poses a challenge to the colorectal surgeon; it is fundamental that the patient understands the anatomical limitations and the tech­nical complexities associated with each approach and shared decision-making may be entertained addressing the patients’ needs and preferences.
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