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 ...

Hemorrhoids are a common anal disorder which affects both men and women of all ages. One out of ten patients with hemorrhoidal disease, requires surgical treatment. Unfortunately though, hemorrhoidectomy is closely related to complications that can be present early or late postoperatively. In the present manuscript, the safe surgical technique which emphasizes to the identification of the key a...

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...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of the present study was to compare early post-operative complications and length of hospital stay of hemorrhoidectomy patients between those who had and had not received metronidazole perioperatively. RESEARCH DESIGN Retrospective, matched pair case-control study. MATERIAL AND METHOD Medical records of all hemorrhoidal patients hospitalized between January 2000 and De...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to assess whether any method of hemorrhoid therapy has been shown to be superior in randomized, controlled trials. METHOD A meta-analysis was performed of all randomized, controlled trials assessing two or more treatment modalities for symptomatic hemorrhoids. Outcome variables included response to therapy, need for further therapy, complications, and pai...