BACKGROUND Numerous abdominal and perineal operations have been described for the treatment of complete rectal prolapse. We describe our results with Devadhar's rectopexy, which avoids dissection in the presacral space and hence may be expected to have a low risk of sexual and urinary disturbances. METHODS Case records of 72 consecutive patients (40 men), aged above 18 years, with complete re...

Aim: To investigate the rectal and anal sphincter factors that might contribute to the development of fecal incontinence (FI) after anal fissure and rectal prolapse surgery. Methods: Fourteen patients with FI after sphincterotomy (n = 8) and rectal prolapse surgery (n = 6) were studied [clinical assessment, rectosigmoidoscopy, anorectal manometry, including rectoanal inhibitory reflex (RAIR) me...

AIM To investigate the assumption that schistosomiasis is the main cause of rectal prolapse in young Egyptian males. METHODS Twenty-one male patients between ages of 18 and 50 years with complete rectal prolapse were included in the study out of a total 29 patients with rectal prolapse admitted for surgery at Colorectal Surgery Unit, Ain Shams University hospitals between the period of Januar...

A multistate cooperative study was conducted to study the current issue of tail length in docked lambs and its relationship to incidence of rectal prolapse. A total of 1,227 lambs at six locations were randomly allocated to two or three tail dock treatments: 1) short--tail was removed as close to the body as possible, 2) medium--tail was removed at a location midway between the attachment of th...

Fifty-four pediatric patients with rectal prolapse (RP) were identified by review of medical records from 1977 to 1987. Rectal prolapse was attributed to chronic constipation (15 patients), acute diarrheal disease (11 patients), cystic fibrosis (CF) (six patients), and neurologic/anatomic abnormalities (13 patients). In nine patients, no underlying cause was identified. The patients with CF did...

In patients with rectal prolapse is the prevalence of colorectal cancer increased, suggesting that a colorectal tumor may induce rectal prolapse. Establishment of tumor xenografts in immunodeficient mice after orthotopic inoculations of human colorectal cancer cells into the caecal wall is a widely used approach for the study of human colorectal cancer progression and preclinical evaluation of ...

INTRODUCTION Rectal mucosal prolapse syndrome, histologically characterized by fibromuscular obliteration in the lamina propria, hyperplastic glands and thickened muscularis mucosa, causes rectal bleeding. Sjögren's syndrome is an autoimmune exocrinopathy that chiefly destroys the salivary and lacrimal glands by lympho-plasmacytic infiltration. Although various gastrointestinal manifestations h...

Background: Hemorrhoids are one of the most common perianal diseases. They have several surgical and non-surgical treatment methods. Among surgical procedures, Stapler hemorrhoidopexy method has recently gained widespread acceptance. Hemorrhoidopexy with a circular stapler usually has a series of common and mild complications and a few rare and life-threatening complications such as rectal perf...

More recently some patients with rectal mucosal prolapse and obstructive defaecation have been treated with the procedure for prolapse and haemorrhoids. We report a case of symptomatic chronic circumferentially prolapsed haemorrhoids that had several failed attempts at surgical repair. This was finally managed by ablation and correction of the associated rectal mucosal prolapse by a modified 'D...