Endostomal Three-dimensional Ultrasonography for Parastomal Hernia (CTULOP)

Umeå University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Parastomal Hernia

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: Computerized tomography of the abdomen; Diagnostic Test: Endostomal three-dimensional ultrasonography; Diagnostic Test: Clinical examination; Diagnostic Test: Evaluation at laparotomy/laparoscopy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04311333

CTULOP

Details and patient eligibility

About

The intention is to examine the role of ultrasonographic examination inside intestinal stomas in diagnosing parastomal hernia. Patients with a stoma since at least one year back who are being scheduled for abdominal surgery will be examined for eligibility according to the selection criteria. Included patients will undergo routine clinical examination, endostomal ultrasonography and computerized tomography scan of the abdomen. Findings will be correlated to findings during surgery (gold standard). Values for sensitivity, specificity, predictive values and likelihood ratio will be calculated.

Full description

Parastomal hernia (PSH) is one of the most common stoma complications, with an incidence of 30-50 % within just a couple of years of stoma creation. Surgical parastomal hernia repair is a morbid and complicated procedure, with a 30-day reoperation rate of 13 % and 30-day mortality rate of 6 % in population-based surveys. There is no established gold standard diagnostic modality. Routinely, patients are examined clinically in various positions with and without increased intra-abdominal pressure. It has been shown in previous studies that clinical examination has a very low inter-observer reliability. Computerized tomography is often performed in addition to clinical examination, but is not ideal in diagnosing PSH either, not only beacause of insufficient test characteristics but also since the examinations should ideally be performed with specific protocols, prone position and be reviewed by a dedicated radiologist. The risk of incorrectly diagnosing a PSH (false positive) is that patients might subsequently be exposed to complex and dangerous surgical interventions without any health benefit, while incorrectly ruling out a PSH (false negative) can cause the patient to have to live with potentially treatable symptoms, life-threatening bowel incarceration being the most severe potential complication.

Thus, improved diagnostic accuracy is required. A method that has been developed within our research group is endostomal tree-dimensional ultrasonography, which has preliminarily proven to be approximately as sensitive as CT, with a markedly higher specificity. A larger and less selected study needs to be conducted in order to reliably calculate test characteristics, predictive values and likelihood ratio.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• End colostomy or end ileostomy since ≥ 1 year
• Planned for laparotomy or laparoscopy
• Age ≥ 18
• Speaks and reads Swedish language
• Informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• Known parastomal hernia only indication for laparotomy or laparoscopy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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100 participants in 1 patient group

All patients

Experimental group

Description:

All patients undergo endostomal three-dimensional ultrasonography, computerized tomography, clinical examination and laparotomy/laparoscopy. At all the respective examinations, the presence of a parastomal hernia as well as hernia location and size is evaluated.

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Computerized tomography of the abdomen

Diagnostic Test: Evaluation at laparotomy/laparoscopy

Diagnostic Test: Endostomal three-dimensional ultrasonography

Diagnostic Test: Clinical examination