UNLABELLED Recurrent rectal prolapse, resistant to medical treatment, is an indication for surgical treatment. Patients with spinal dysraphia frequently have already been treated by sclerotherapy or other surgical techniques, but unsuccessfully. METHODS We present 2 patients, who underwent laparoscopic rectopexy, with spinal dysraphia and complete rectal prolapse relapse after conservative tr...

A 57 year old woman, with no known allergies, a history of excessive alcohol consumption and a previous diagnosis of compensated alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver, was admitted because of intermittent rectal bleeding and severe anaemia ( Hb: 5 gr/dl). Physical examination showed a large rectal prolapse (Fig 1). After reducing the prolapse, a colonoscopy was performed and no other abnormalities w...

McKittrick-Wheelock syndrome is a rare disease characterized by a large hypersecretory rectosigmoid villous adenoma resulting in persistent large volume diarrhea, electrolyte abnormalities, and renal dysfunction. We report an unusual presentation of this syndrome in a patient who developed persistent diarrhea along with dermatomyositis and rectal prolapse and was later discovered to have a larg...

Inflammatory cloacogenic polyps (ICPs) are considered to be part of the spectrum of manifestations of mucosal prolapse, which includes solitary rectal ulcer syndrome (SRUS), rectal prolapse, intussusceptions and rectocele. The ICP is thought to result from mucosal prolapse, which produces local trauma and ischemic injury followed by inflammation, repair and regenerative changes. The estimated a...

Background: The aim of this study is to evaluate the long and short ten postoperative results after the Notaras procedure as a surgical treatment of rectal prolapse in adults. Methods: Thirty-one patients suffering from rectal prolapse who were operated with Notaras posterior mesh rectopexy in Shohada-e-Tajrish hospital between 1991- 2000 were followed up for results and complications and t...

PURPOUSE The Authors correlated intraoperative mucohaemorrhoidal prolapse morphology, specimen histology, anal canal length and purse-string height. METHODS Between September-November 2010, 18 patients (9 grade III; 9 grade IV haemorrhoids) underwent stapled haemorrhoidopexy. Mean age was 54 years (range 38-78).Proctoscopic prolapse morphology, anal canal length, pursestring height and extern...

OBJECTIVES Anatomical and functional results of a modified sacral perineocolporectopexy for extreme forms of complex pelvic organs prolapse. MATERIAL AND METHODS Between 2005 and 2010, 10 women aged 47-75 years were treated by abdomino-perineal implantation of polypropylene mesh for modified sacral perineocolporectopexy and subsequently followed-up. They were suffering from enterocele (9 pts)...