Introduction Children have a variety of anorectal problems that cause considerable distress to the patients and challenges to the surgeons. The presentation of these conditions may be age specific. Abscesses, fistulas, and fissures appear more commonly in infants and young children, whereas hemorrhoidal diseases are more common in older children and teenagers. The anorectal conditions discussed...

This article presents a method to fabricate, measure and control a physical simulation of the human defecatory system to investigate individual and combined effects of anorectal angle and sphincter pressure on continence. To illustrate the capabilities and clinical relevance of the work, the influence of a passive-assistive artificial anal sphincter (FENIXTM) is evaluated. A model rectum and as...

INTRODUCTION Colonic atresia and anorectal malformation are rare congenital anomalies individually. Few reports of the conditions combined in a single patient have been published in the literature. Neither colonic atresia, anorectal malformation or a combination of the disorders has previously been reported in the Haitian population. CASE PRESENTATION A 5-day-old female presented with feculen...

ABSTRACT 
 Background Hemorrhoidal disease is a common benign anorectal disease. Acute thrombosis that occurs during the course of hemorrhoidal painful complication. Factors affecting its etiopathogenesis are not known definitively. The aim this study, therefore, was to assess predisposition coagulation development disease.
 Method 30 patients with acute thrombosed and other but no th...

Background Benign anal stenosis is an uncommon, disabling and incapacitating disease, occurring mainly after anorectal surgery. To date, ideal management of this problem has not been well defined. Different surgical options have been described in literature to treat anal stricture and every flap anoplasty presents advantages and limitations. We retrospectively analyzed the results of the surgic...

BACKGROUND/AIMS To date, high-resolution manometry has been used mainly in the study of esophageal motility disorders and has been shown to provide more physiological information than conventional manometry, and is easier to interpret. This study aimed to evaluate the usefulness of high-resolution anorectal manometry (HRARM) compared to water-perfused anorectal manometry. METHODS Patients who...

BACKGROUND Anorectal transplantation is a method for patients who have lost their anorectal function or suffer from congenital anorectal dysfunction to recover this function, and this has been investigated in experimental animal models using pigs, dogs, and rats. In this study, we performed an examination of anorectal transplantation in human cadavers to investigate whether this procedure could...

Anorectal manometry provides an objective assessment of anal sphincter pressure and rectal sensitivity and anorectal reflexes in response to distension. However, its clinical utility is hampered by a lack of standardized protocols and normative data from healthy subjects. Previous studies have used water-perfused systems in normal subjects, but some adopted a rapid pull-through technique; other...

We evaluated the effect of biofeedback therapy (BFT) on anorectal function after stoma closure when administered during the interval of temporary stoma after sphincter-preserving surgery for rectal cancer.Impaired anorectal function is common after lower anterior resections, though no specific treatment options are currently available to prevent this adverse outcome.Fifty-six patients who under...

OBJECTIVE Numerous concerns have been raised relative to the appropriateness of laparoscopic surgery for cure of rectal adenocarcinomas. However, because of their rarity, little information exists about the role of laparoscopy for other anorectal malignancies. We report the outcome of five patients who underwent laparoscopic surgery for other anorectal malignancies. METHODS All patients who u...