Oxybutynin Per Rectum-Fewer Side Effects and Sustained Plasma Levels

Management of acute bleeding per rectum.

BACKGROUND Bleeding per rectum is a common indication for acute hospital admissions to the colorectal department. The frequencies of aetiologies in Singapore are different from those in Western populations. A retrospective analysis of the demography, pathology and management of acute bleeding per rectum was performed to determine the outcome and difference in aetiology from the West. METHODS ...

Neurenteric Cyst Presenting with Bleeding Per Rectum

Neurenteric cyst in the thoracic cavity may produce a myriad of clinical features. We report a 7-month-old girl who presented with significant bleeding per rectum. On imaging, a mediastinal cystic structure with air-fluid levels was evident with cervico-thoracic vertebral anomalies. The cyst was excised and histopathology showed intestinal mucosal lining with heterotopic pancreatic tissue confi...

The Continuous Administration of Saline per Rectum

Twenty years ago J. B. Murphy wrote regarding appendicitis, " We have treated on this plan forty-seven consecutive cases of peritonitis, of the direct perforative type, with two deaths, one, the sixteenth case, of a double pneumonia six days after operation, long after all peritoneal symptoms had subsided, the other, the fortyfifth case, died on the fourth day from an intestinal obstruction due...

Delivery of a Dead Fœtus per Rectum

The patient was very much debilitated, anaemic, and could neither stand erect nor walk. She had temperature 99?F. and the pulse rate was 120 per minute. Past history.?Three years back she had given birth to a child who was born healthy but died after 6 months. She gave no specific history of syphilis or gonorrhoea. She conceived again and carried 8^ months till the end of the month of December ...

A Case of Abdominal Pregnancy and Delivery per Rectum