Objective Traditional surgical procedures for intractable idiopathic constipation are associated with a variable outcome and substantial morbidity. The symptomatic response, physiological effect and ...

A man in his late teens presented with a six month history of painless bright red blood in his stool and on wiping. He also reported subjective, non-specific weight loss over the same period. The ...

What Is Your Pelvic Floor? The pelvic floor is a set of muscles that support many of your organs. In people with uteruses, it supports the uterus, bladder, and colon. In people with penises, it ...

A truck driver alleged to have put the future of his employer at risk by defecating in a client's loading bay during an “urgent diarrhoea” incident has told the Workplace Relations Commission he ...

Nearly two million Vietnamese, or 2 percent of the population, still defecate in public, spreading diseases like flu, diarrhea and dysentery, an official said. Nguyen Thi Lien Huong, director of the ...

Female pelvic floor disorders affect the majority of women, for at least some time in their lives. In most instances such disorders result in gynecological and urological presentations, but, owing to ...

Although there are defined criteria for the diagnosis of constipation, in practice, diagnostic criteria are less rigid, and depend in part on the perception of normal bowel habit. Constipation is ...