Hemorrhoids are swollen veins in the rectum or anus causing discomfort, pain, and bleeding. Learn the causes, symptoms, treatment, and more.
If you're experiencing any type of rectalbleeding. If the hemorrhoids are causing you pain or discomfort. If the problems persist despite trying over-the-counter hemorrhoid creams or other remedies. If you're passing stools that look maroon in color or tarry in color, a sign of bleeding. Ho...
smooth muscle, elastic and connective tissue that resides within the anal canal," Han said. "The anal cushion helps prevent fecal incontinence, but due to repeated bowel movements, excessive straining, and prolonged use of the restroom, the anal cushion becomes compressed and congested, causing s...
Hemorrhoids are therefore the pathological term to describe the abnormal downward displacement of the anal cushions causing venous dilatation. There are typically three major anal cushions, located in the right anterior, right posterior and left lateral aspect of the anal canal, and various numbers of...
I do have some slight spotting, but not blood, more of fecal which I'm not sure if it's incontinence or urgencies. I no long wet the entire gauze 4"x4" I put, but have spotting. I assume it's stop causing some sort of bleeding, and into healing. The muscle seems to be ...
Rectal perforation, pelvic sepsis, rectal hematoma causing intestinal obstruction and other life-threathening complications Life threatening complications after PPH are usually associated with anastomotic leakage or pelvic sepsis [22,100–102]. Their frequency was 0.08 and 0.09% in two large series [20...
muscles and causing spasms. I kept passing out a lot of gas and had to wear a lady's sanitary pad - the staples caused bowel incontinence ! I kept running to the toilet 5 or 6 times a day for almost the first month, but that wasn't enough. The pad barely kept out the fecal ...
Six studies involving 1372 participants provided data for the analysis of fecal incontinence. As visualized in Fig. 4b, TST ranked first for reducing the fecal incontinence rates (P = 0.81). According to our rank analysis, PPH was ranked second (P = 0.16). The worst procedure for reducing ...
Although PVA embolization can prevent the collateral circulation from causing secondary bleeding, it theoretically increases the risk of intestinal ischemic necrosis[21]. The clinical outcomes are better when larger particles (900–1200 μm) are used than when smaller particles are used[25]. In ...