OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between incontinence and mortality in elderly people living at home. DESIGN Of the randomly selected people aged 65 years and older living in Settsu city, Osaka in October 1992, 1405 were contacted and constituted the study cohort. Follow-up for 42 months was completed for 1318 (93.8%; 1129 alive, 189 dead). MEASURES Data on general health status, histo...

BACKGROUND Information was collected on 1500 obstetric fistula patients attending Bugando Medical Centre (BMC) in Mwanza, Tanzania. OBJECTIVES To identify high risk populations of fistula patients treated from 1998-2006. DESIGN A prospective description study of 1294 patients treated for urine and faecal incontinence at BMC. SETTING Obstetrics and Gynaecological ward at Bugando Medical Ce...

Sixty-three patients with complete rectal prolapse and/or faecal incontinence have undergone anal manometry and the results have been compared with an equal number of age- and sex-matched controls. Maximal basal pressure (MBP) and maximum squeeze pressure (MSP) were measured before and at four months and a year after treatment. The anal pressures of normal subjects are presented. Patients with ...

The ultrastructural features of the internal anal sphincter (IAS) muscle were studied in biopsies from five patients with neurogenic anorectal incontinence and six control subjects undergoing anorectal excision for cancer, or for inflammatory bowel disease. In the patients with idiopathic neurogenic anorectal incontinence the internal anal sphincter showed loss of smooth muscle cells, disruptio...

Abstract Introduction To evaluate the medical school undergraduate curriculum on faecal incontinence (FI) and develop an educational tool to improve teaching subject. Method Qualitative analysis of literature research data collected from students via emails, questionnaires focused group discussions. Result FI has not been implanted into 12,13 there are variations in topic different schools. n= ...

INTRODUCTION Rectal prolapse is seen in up to one in 100 elderly women and results in symptoms such as incontinence, mucus secretion and constipation. The aim of this study was to present short- and longterm outcomes after robot-assisted rectopexy in patients with rectal prolapse. MATERIAL AND METHODS All patients diagnosed with rectal prolapse at our institution underwent robot-assisted rect...