Routine Use of Gastrograffin Enema prior to the Reversal of a Loop Ileostomy

Abstract

The incidence of positive radiological leak in uncomplicated patients is low; such patients had their loop ileostomies closed with or without serial gastrograffin enema. Routine gastrograffin enema in the absence of a clinical suspicion of anastomotic failure would appear to be of little value.