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=====Hartmann's Procedure=====
The Hartmann's Procedure //(also known as the Hartmann's Operation)// was first described in 1921 by Heni Hartmann. It refers to the surgical resection of the rectosigmoid colon (the part of the colon that connects to the rectum) and then following closure of the open rectal stump end. The anus is usually left untouched so that any [[MucousDischarge mucous the rectum creates naturally can be discharged]] as normal into the toilet.
Whilst the Hartmann's Procedure does leave the rectum, anus and sphincter muscles relatively intact/untouched, and therefore is in theory a colostomy that can be reversed, Wikipedia states that as many as 2/3rds of the patients who have this operation performed on them never have the reversal operation done afterwards. Be this out of personal choice, or medical suggestion it does not say, and it offers no research to back up this information. I personally ([[Jason_D]])had my colostomy formed by Hartmann's Procedure, and was scheduled to have a reversal done the following year, however complications with my bowel disorder prevented that from happening and lead to the rectum being removed which thus made my colostomy permanent. I would also be so bold as to suggest that maybe (and I've no proof of this, its total hearsay) some of the ostomates who had their stoma formed via Hartmann's Procedure received such a cessation in the bowel disease symptoms that they were happy to keep the stoma for as long as they could as it lead to such an improvement in their quality of life.
The Hartmann's Procedure //(also known as the Hartmann's Operation)// was first described in 1921 by Heni Hartmann. It refers to the surgical resection of the rectosigmoid colon (the part of the colon that connects to the rectum) and then following closure of the open rectal stump end. The anus is usually left untouched so that any [[MucousDischarge mucous the rectum creates naturally can be discharged]] as normal into the toilet.
Whilst the Hartmann's Procedure does leave the rectum, anus and sphincter muscles relatively intact/untouched, and therefore is in theory a colostomy that can be reversed, Wikipedia states that as many as 2/3rds of the patients who have this operation performed on them never have the reversal operation done afterwards. Be this out of personal choice, or medical suggestion it does not say, and it offers no research to back up this information. I personally ([[Jason_D]])had my colostomy formed by Hartmann's Procedure, and was scheduled to have a reversal done the following year, however complications with my bowel disorder prevented that from happening and lead to the rectum being removed which thus made my colostomy permanent. I would also be so bold as to suggest that maybe (and I've no proof of this, its total hearsay) some of the ostomates who had their stoma formed via Hartmann's Procedure received such a cessation in the bowel disease symptoms that they were happy to keep the stoma for as long as they could as it lead to such an improvement in their quality of life.
