LASER FiLaC™ (FISTULA LASER CLOSURE) : First-line Treatment of Complex Anal Fistulas

Launched by FONDATION HÔPITAL SAINT-JOSEPH · Jan 20, 2022

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ClinConnect Summary

A first retrospective study was conducted in the medical and surgical proctology department of the Hospital Group Paris Saint-Joseph on a cohort on 69 consecutive patients seen between May 2016 ans April 2017 and treated by FiLaC™ for a complex anal fistula. This technique has thus cured 60% of patients with superior trans-sphincter fistula. No incontinence-type complications were observed. These results, all the interesting as it was a learning phase, led the investigators to continue to use FiLaC™, which is currently practiced by all the team's practitioners as a first-line sphincter savi...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Patient with complex anal fistula treated by the FiLaC™ between 05/01/17 and 05/01/18
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Patient scheduled for treatment by FiLaC™ and collected as such but finally treated by fistulotomy given a fistula pathway considered intraoperatively less complex than expected
• • Patient with recto vaginal or vaginal skin fistula
• • Patient under guardianship or curators
• • Patient deprived of liberty
• • Patient objecting to the use of their data for this research