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Register: ISRCTN
Last refreshed on: 17 August 2021
Main ID:  ISRCTN60893979
Date of registration: 24/09/2007
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Command Hospital Air Force Bangalore (CHAFB) (India)
Public title: Unilateral versus bilateral internal sphincterotomy: a randomised controlled trial for chronic fissure-in-ano
Scientific title: Unilateral versus bilateral internal sphincterotomy: a randomised controlled trial for chronic fissure-in-ano
Date of first enrolment: 01/01/2004
Target sample size: 200
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN60893979
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Randomised, active controlled trial. Randomisation performed by sealed envelope method. (Treatment)  
Phase:  Not Specified
Countries of recruitment
India
Contacts
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Affiliation: 
Name: Aswini    Pujahari
Address:  PG Department of Surgery Command Hospital Air Force Bangalore (CHAFB) 560007 Bangalore India
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Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria:
1. Disease over one year
2. Aged more than 18 years

Exclusion criteria:
1. Oral medication with nitrates, calcium channel blocker
2. Past ano-rectal surgery
3. Elderly lady with old perineal tear


Age minimum:
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Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Chronic fissure-in-ano
Digestive System
Chronic anal fissure
Intervention(s)

Group A (active control): single internal lateral sphinterotomy
Group B: (new treatment): double internal lateral sphinterotomy

A minimum follow up of 6 months.
Primary Outcome(s)

1. Post-operative pain
2. Recurrences
Secondary Outcome(s)

1. Healing of fissure, measured at 3 to 6 months
2. Incontinence to flatuous and faecal matter, measured from the date of surgery until 6 months in the form of use of pad, soiling of undergarment
Secondary ID(s)
N/A
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Investigator initiated and funded (India)
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
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Ethics approval received from the Medical Research Committee of the Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC), Pune, India on the 26th December 2003 (ref: 2248/AFMRC/EC).
Results
Results available: Yes
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Date Completed: 31/08/2006
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