Inappropriate therapies for hemorrhoids can lead to various complications including anorectal stricture. We report a patient presenting with catastrophic rectal perforation due to severe anal stricture after inappropriate hemorrhoid treatment. A 67-years old man with perianal pain visited the emergency room. The hemorrhoids accompanied by constipation, had tortured him since his youth. Thus he ...

RESULTS: no major complications occurred in either group. the median visual analog scale scores for pain in the hemorrhoidectomy and Doppler-guided dearterialization plus mucopexy groups on days 1, 7, 14, and 30 were 7 vs 5.5, 3 vs 2.5, 1 vs 0, and 0 vs 0 (p > 0.05). the median work resumption day was the 22nd in the hemorrhoidectomy group and the 10th in the Doppler-guided dearterialization pl...

Hemorrhoids are the most common anal disease and many modalities are available for its treatment. In our study, we compared Doppler-guided Hemorrhoid Artery Ligation combined with Recto Anal Repair and open Hemorrhoidectomy. Study conducted on 50 patients with Grade III and Grade IV haemorrhoids. We observed DGHAL procedure has less post operative pain, less need for analgesic, less operative t...

Hemorrhoidectomy is the treatment of choice for patients with third or fourth-degree hemorrhoids. Although the majority of surgeons believe that surgical hemorrhoidectomy is the most effective approach with excellent results in the management of hemorrhoid disease, but hemorrhoidectomy is not a simple procedure. One of the complications of this surgery is an injury to anal sphincters that can l...

PURPOSE Doppler-guided ligation of the hemorrhoidal arteries was described as an alternative to hemorrhoidectomy. The authors report their experience with this procedure. METHODS From 2002 to 2004, 100 consecutive patients underwent hemorrhoidal artery ligation procedure for symptomatic hemorrhoids and were reviewed at one month and at three years. RESULTS There were 54 females. Seventy-eig...

Background and Aim: Hemorrhoids are common anorectal problems that cause fear by bleeding, pruritus burden, thrombosis pain. Prolapse hemorrhoids managed stapled hemorrhoidectomy (SH). Initially, Stapled seemed to be a good alternative for Milligan Morgan (MM) verified various studies. However, recent studies found long-term assessment of gives poor outcomes in terms postoperative complications...

BACKGROUND Hemorrhoid is one of the most common surgical diseases occurring in the anorectal region. In this study, we evaluated the effect of ischiorectal fossa block on alleviating post hemorrhoidectomy pain. METHODS In this study, 90 patients suffering from hemorrhoids were evaluated. They were randomly divided into 3 groups. The first group had no block, the second group an ischiorectal b...

Received: October 13, 2008. Accepted: December 15, 2008. Corresponding author: Jin Sun Yoon, M.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Korean Veterans Hospital, 6-2, Dunchon-dong, Gangdong-gu, Seoul 134-060, Korea. Tel: 82-2-2225-1417, Fax: 82-2-2225-1416, E-mail: [email protected] Copyright c Korean Society of Anesthesiologists, 2009 Suspicious stress induced cardiomyopathy follo...

A 62-year-old woman presented to a hospital in rural Australia with complaints of left lower quadrant abdominal pain, bloating, dyspnea, and a dry cough. She reported weight loss of 4 kg over 2months (previously, 48.5kg), fevers, and fatigue. Her medical history was significant for chronic constipation since age 20 years, and hemorrhoidectomy at age 59 years. Physical examination revealed moder...