METHODS: Seventeen patients (50±15 years, 11 females) with fecal incontinence (10±15 CI: 3-17 incontinence episodes per week) after anorectal surgery (sphincterotomy =5, fistulotomy =5, rectal prolapse =4, hemorrhoidectomy =1, others =2; 2±1 CI:1.2-3.2 years after surgery) were ...
After a median follow-up of six months (range, 0-36 months), three patients had the system explanted because of diminishing clinical response, and two patients had explantation because of infection. The effect of SNS was similar in 19 patients with idiopathic incontinence, eight with spinal cau...
Unusual Cause of Colonic Obstruction: Gallstone Impaction Requiring Mechanical LithotripsyAnal ultrasoundAnorectal manometryFecal incontinenceDivision of Gastroenterology... G Reiss,R Gopi,S Ramrakhiani - 《Clinical Gastroenterology & Hepatology the Official Clinical Practice Journal of the American Gastroenterolo...
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Do not offer surgery to patients in whom the principal symptom is incontinence for liquid stool. Patients who undergo surgery should be warned that all recognized operations have the potential to make the symptoms worse. Patients with irritable bowel syndrome have a poor outcome after surgery. ...
38% of patients reported no symptoms of incontinence after the treatment. All 18 patients included into this study had a FI diagnosis for at least 6 months and had impaired continence function confirmed by anorectal manometry; furthermore, they have not had any history of surgery, trauma, metabo...