We have extended our experience of restorative proctocolectomy and ileoanal anastomosis to include 13 patients with functional bowel disorders. Eight had recurrent constipation after colectomy for slow transit constipation andfive had constipation and overflow incontinence associated with megarectum
Surgery for constipation
โ Scribed by M. R. B. Keighley
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 189 KB
- Volume
- 75
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0007-1323
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Abstract Subtotal colectomy has been performed in 40 patients with severe constipation. Only one patient was male. Five patients (13 per cent) had a history of a serious psychiatric disorder. Twenty-six patients (65 per cent) could not expel a 100-ml air-filled balloon and 19 patients (48 per cent)
Until recently, the surgical management of idiopathic slow-transit constipation had remained unchanged since the condition was jirst described by Arbuthnot Lane in 1908. Although colectomy and ileorectal anastomosis is a successful treatment for the majority of patients, symptoms persist or are wors