Dose–Volume Predictors for Patient-reported Late Diarrhoea, Faecal Incontinence and Urgency after Pelvic Radiotherapy

Cost of pelvic floor repair for faecal incontinence.

BACKGROUND Pelvic floor repair is often unsuccessful for the treatment of incontinence. Some patients undergo repeated operations, and a few may require a stoma that can result in further operations. METHOD We have examined the cost of two forms of pelvic floor repair: post-anal repair (PAR; n = 47) and total pelvic floor repair (TPFR; n = 32). RESULTS Persistent incontinence, which had an ...

Patient-reported impotence and incontinence after nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy.

BACKGROUND The age-adjusted rate of radical prostatectomy, the most common treatment of early (nonmetastatic) prostate cancer, increased almost sixfold between 1984 and 1990. This increase was due in part to reported improvements in postoperative sexual potency after the use of newly developed "nerve-sparing" procedures. However, published estimates from physicians of impotence following variou...

Surgery for Faecal Incontinence

Faecal candida and diarrhoea.

BACKGROUND Candida species are frequently isolated from stools of children with diarrhoea but are not proven enteropathogens. It is hypothesised that faecal candida causes diarrhoea. AIMS To determine the prevalence of faecal candida in childhood diarrhoea and the relation between faecal yeasts and diarrhoea. METHODS Comparison of clinical and laboratory data, including quantitative stool c...

The role of radiological imaging in the patient with gastrointestinal symptoms after pelvic radiotherapy

In recent years there have been sustained improvements in the outcomes from pelvic malignancy, with the introduction of new radiotherapy or combined chemotherapy– radiation treatment schedules [1,2]. Approximately four out of 10 people with cancer will have radiotherapy as part of their treatment. In the UK this includes about 12 000 patients annually who are treated with radiotherapy for pelvi...