Rectal prolapse repair via vaginal route

Many elderly patients have concomitant anorectal, urological and gynecological symptoms involving multiple perineal structures, which require the surgeon to operate in different areas of his specialty in order to correct different dystopias in a single procedure. We describe a technique for total rectal prolapse correction offering low surgical risk for patients presenting with this pathology along with pelvic floor defects. We used a simple, minimally invasive technique, which showed complete success in the postoperative follow-up. The patients showed no peri- and post-operative complications and were discharged briefly after the procedure. Although it was a small sample, there was no case of rectal prolapse recurrence with the technique described. With the procedure described here, the treatment of rectal prolapse is possible with concomitant pelvic reconstruction in a single procedure, which is an interesting approach for elderly patients commonly affected by both diseases, as these patients often have other comorbidities that increase the perioperative risk

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Morsch,Héber de Oliveira, Goemann,Iuri Martin
Format:	Digital revista
Language:	English
Published:	Sociedade Brasileira de Coloproctologia 2013
Online Access:	http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2237-93632013000100046
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