Long Term Efficacy of Sacral Nerve Modulation (SNM) in Patients With Constipation or Stool Incontinence

Cantonal Hospital of St. Gallen

Status: Completed

Conditions: Fecal Incontinence; Constipation

Treatments: Device: sacral nerve modulation

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02836717

SGChir201601

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to determine the success rate, the success duration, the complication rate, maintenance effort and quality of life several years after sacral nerve modulation (SNM) treatment for constipation or stool incontinence.

Enrollment: 101 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients who had received an SNM treatment in the last 10 years

Exclusion criteria

• pudendal nerve stimulation
• refusal to allow use of clinical data for retrospective data analysis