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Home - 01 - Hemorrhoids - 02 - Rectal - 03 - Rectal Bleeding, Abscess, Fissure - 04 - Cancer (in combination with colon, bowel, rectal, polyp, colorectal), Diverticulitis, Rectal Leakage
- 05 - Anal Mass, Rectal Mass, Pilonidal Cyst, Tailbone Pain or Drainage, Colorectal - 06 - Urodynamics, Constipation, Diarrhea, Fecal or Stool Incontinence - 07 - Ulcerative Colitis, Crohn’s Disease, Laparoscopy - 08 - Trans-rectal Ultra Sound, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Polypectomy, Strictures of anus or rectum, Colonic Neoplasms - 09 - Hemorrhoids - 10 - Hemorrhoids (cont), Colonoscopy - 11 - Rectal Bleeding, Rectal Prolapse - 12 - Rectal Bleeding (cont), Anal Abscess, Crohn's Disease - 13 - Anal Fissures, Colorectal Cancer - 14 - Colorectal Cancer (cont), Diverticulitis, Anal Mass, Pilonidal Cyst, Coccydynia, Coccygodynia - 15 - Colorectal / Colorectal Cancer / Colon Cancer, Urodynamics, Constipation, Diarrhea, Fecal or Stool Incontinence, Ulcerative Colitis, Crohn's Disease - 16 - Laparoscopy, Trans-Rectal Ultrasound, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Polypectomy, Colonic Neoplasms

2. Rectal

Weakness of the anal sphincter muscle is often associated with rectal prolapse and may result in mucus or stool leaking. Rectal bleeding is usally a sign of something minor. The specific cause of rectal bleeding needs to be identified in order for appropriate treatment to be started and to correct the problem. You should never assume that rectal bleeding is not serious though. Rectal bleeding may be a sign of rectal cancer.

Rectal prolapse is a condition in which the rectum turns itself inside out. The rectum may protrude although it does not stick out of the body. This condition is more common in females versus males. Your doctor may diagnose rectal prolapse by taking a careful history and performing a complete examination.

Occasionally genetic predisposition plays a role. Rectal prolapse may also be part of the aging process when weakening of the ligaments supporting the rectum inside the pelvis and loss of tightness of the anal sphincter muscle occurs. Neurological problems such as spinal cord transection or spinal cord disease may also lead to prolapse. Typically no single cause can be identified regarding rectal prolapse.

Rectal prolapse may occur after a lifelong habit of straining to have bowel movements or as a delayed result of stresses involved in childbirth. Some of the symptoms of rectal prolapse be the same as hemorrhoids such as bleeding and/or tissue protruding. Rectal prolapse involves a segment of the bowel located higher up within the body, but hemorrhoids are located near the anal opening.

A rectal prolapse may be hidden or internal. If this happens, a videodefecogram x-ray examination may be done. The videodefocogram x-ray takes pictures while the patient is having a bowel movement and may help the doctor determine whether surgery is needed.

An anorectal manometry test might be used. The anorectal test measures whether the muscles around the rectum are functioning properly.
Rectal prolapse may be corrected through abdominal or rectal surgery.

Your age, physical condition and extent of prolapse and the results of various tests will help your doctor determine which type of surgery would be beneficial to you.

Success of a surgery depends on the patient's anal sphincter muscle before surgery, whether the prolapse is internal or external, the condition of the patient and the surgical method. If the anal muscle is weak it may regain strength after the rectal prolapse has been corrected.

Most patients are 100% relieved of symptoms by the appropriate procedure.