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AIM: To define the surgical indications in patients with chronic colostasis who were operated using original technique and to access obtained results. MATERIAL AND METHODS: It was analyzed the results of surgical treatment of 81 patients with chronic colostasis in remote postoperative period. We have proved that extended left-sided hemicolectomy with rectosigmoid resection, positive mesentery root rotation and transposition of right large bowel to left part of abdominal cavity, creation of new ligamentary apparatus provide favourable remote results and increase life's quality of operated patients. RESULTS: Complex analysis of clinical, morphological and functional results before and after medical therapy allowed to define indications and optimal period for surgical treatment in patients with chronic decompensated colostasis.