Introduction. The open Ladd surgery is a standard treatment of intestinal malrotation. After implementing laparoscopic techniques into clinical practice, the number of reports on successful treatment of this defect with minimally invasive laparoscopic techniques is growing. However, publications on such correction of the defect in newborns are rather scarce.Purpose. To improve management of newborns with intestinal malrotation.Material and methods. Retrospective and prospective analyses of 77 newborns with intestinal malrotation, treated in 2002–2020, have been made. The studied group included 35 newborns; the control group – 42. StatTech program was used for statistical data processing.Results. Groups were comparable in anthropometric indicators, gender composition, gestational age. The following differences were revealed during the study: laparoscopic surgery lasts longer than the open surgery. The intensive care period was uneventful in the studied group. Passage through the intestine was restored faster, enteral feeding started earlier in the laparoscopic group too. The number of bed days in patients operated with minimally invasive techniques was less , if to compare to the control group with open surgery. After the open surgery, children often required intestinal stimulation in order to restore passage through the gastrointestinal tract. The incidence of complications does not depend on the applied surgical technique. Relapses in both groups are comparable; the leading factor in developing relapses is violations of surgical techniques.
This review aimed to analyze and organize information on the treatment of newborns with bowel malrotation. A systematic review was conducted using the databases PubMed, Web of Science, Google Scholar, Scopus, and eLibrary and journals of Pediatric Surgery, Russian Bulletin of Pediatric Surgery, Anesthesiology and Reanimatology, and Pediatric Surgery from 2010 to 2020. The search terms were as follows: malrotation, neonatal, infant, newborn, intestinal malrotation, malrotation, neonatal period, Ledds syndrome, and midgut volvulus. All journal issues were reviewed for the selected period. Following the screening of published articles, six full-text articles that met the selection criteria were included in the systematic review. A total of 191 patients with bowel malrotation that received various treatments were described: 98 patients underwent defect correction by laparoscopy and 93 patients underwent laparotomy. Bloating was found in 103 children. Reoperations were performed on 18 newborns because of relapse. Complications in the postoperative period were noted in 25 cases, and treatment of 16 children was fatal. No study was performed following a high methodological level. To date, studies on the surgical treatment of newborns with bowel malrotations are limited. In addition, none of the studies were conducted at a high methodological level. The lack of randomized controlled trials can be compensated for by closer collaboration between medical clinics, collection of a larger evidence base based on the analysis of the results of cohort and casecontrol studies, and examination of the reasons for the variability of results among centers.
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