Proctitis has many causes, butsexually transmitted diseases(STDs) are the most common.Gonorrhea,syphilis, herpes, analwarts, andchlamydiaare the most common cause of sexually transmitted proctitis. Proctitis is increasingly more common in homosexual men and in people engaging in oral-anal or anal int...
This causes pain, bleeding and often a discharge of mucus and pus. Proctitis is commonly associated with ULCERATIVE COLITIS, CROHN'S DISEASE, DYSENTERY or sexually transmitted diseases in people engaging in anal intercourse. The treatment is directed to the cause. Collins Dictionary of Medicine ©...
Proctitis has many causes. It may be a side effect of medical treatments like radiation therapy or antibiotics. Proctitis caused by sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) is transmitted through receptive anal intercourse and is most commonly due to gonorrhea and chlamydia, or less commonly lymphogranulom...
Common causes of proctitis are sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), non-STD infections, anorectal trauma, ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, radiation therapy, and antibiotic use.Can proctitis heal on its own?If you have mild symptoms, such as occasional bleeding or tenesmus, your proctitis ...
Proctitis is commonly an underappreciated disease. Often the diagnosis of "idiopa-thic proctitis" leads to inadequate therapy. Differential diagnosis and work-up reveal the complex causes of proctitis including infections, often sexually transmitted, or idiopa-thic inflammatory bowel diseases. Symptoms of...
There is a legion of secondary symptoms of proctitis, all of which medical empiricism considers and denominates causes. FromProject Gutenberg Abnormal irritability of the bowels is necessarily involved in the inflammatory process known as proctitis and colitis. ...
Proctitis:Inflammation of therectum.Proctitismay be due to a considerable number of causes, including infectious agents andulcerative colitis. Infectious proctitis is often due to agents such asChlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrheae, andherpessimplex virus, all of which can beacquiredduring anorecept...
While proctitis is caused both by infectious and noninfectious causes, infectious causes are acquired typically sexually. Chlamydia trachomatis, which is the most frequent bacterial pathogen causing sexually transmitted infections worldwide, is one of the causative agents of proctitis. We report a case ...
However, radiation therapy also has some adverse effects, especially it causes physical damage to normal organs in the pelvis. Among these injuries, rectal injury is the most common and stubborn complication [7, 8]. Radiation proctitis (RP), a rectal radiation injury, is caused by radiation ...
Acute proctitis is a nonspecific disease secondary to many specific causes. These include ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, enteric infections, venereal disease, antibiotics, ischemia, and radiation therapy. Clinicians should avoid making a diagnosis until appropriate tests such as sigmoidoscopy, rectal...