Pelvic Floor Disorders for the Colorectal Surgeon

About this book

• Written by the Southern Pelvic Floor Group, a multidisciplinary group with a major interest in pelvic floor disorders
• Reflects rapid advances being made in the field and emerging new data
• Each chapter is problem based, highly practical and fully illustrated, with images and algorithms showing management of these problems

Aimed at consultant colorectal surgeons and those in training who wish to expand their practice into pelvic floor pathology- a complex and developing area of surgery- Pelvic Floor Disorders for the Colorectal Surgeon provides a modern, thought-provoking approach to pelvic floor disorders written by emerging young leaders in the field. These conditions are of high importance and interest to colorectal surgeons, but also gynaecologists, gastroenterologists and general gastrointestinal surgeons.

The layout of the text book is in 3 sections. The first provides an organizational and diagnostic approach to pelvic floor problems that is conceptual in scope, the second details the patho-anatomical and physiological entities that this diagnostic approach will bring to light and describes their management, while the third is more technical, covering key new diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and their results. The textbook aims to encourage the reader to critically analyze some of their own cherished views, and those more widely established, on colorectal pelvic floor practice.

Readership: Consultant colorectal surgeons and those in training, gynaecologists, gastroenterologists and general gastrointestinal surgeons.

Table of Contents

Approach

1: Establishing and developing a pelvic floor service: The MDT and approach to patient assessment
2: Radiological workup
3: Anorectal physiology

Syndromes

4: A pathophysiological approach to faecal incontinence
5: Pathophysiological approach to obstructed defecation
6: Pathophysiological approach to chronic anorectal pain
7: Conservative treatment of pelvic floor disorders
8: Three compartments- working with a multidisciplinary team
9: Internal rectal prolapse
10: Anismus
11: Rectocele
12: Solitary Rectal Ulcer Syndrome (SRUS)
13: Slow transit constipation
14: Perineoproctology (fissures, haemorrhoids)
15: Pudendal pain syndrome
16: Obstetric sphincter injury
17: Rectal sensory dysfunction

Techniques

18: Laparoscopic ventral rectopexy (with posterior colporraphy and vaginal sacrocolpopexy)
19: STARR and Transtar
20: Complete pelvic floor ultrasound
21: Sacral neuromodulation
22: Anal bulking
23: Anterior sphincter repair
24: Neo-sphincters and artificial sphincters for treating faecal incontinence

Author Information

Edited by Ian Lindsey, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK, Karen Nugent, Senior Lecturer, Honorary Consultant Surgeon, Southampton General Hospital, UK, and Tony Dixon, Consultant Surgeon, North Bristol NHS Trust, UK