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Hemorrhoidal Diseases

Hemorrhoids are vascular cushions in the anal canal
and are normal anatomical structures found
in every human being. Disease symptoms occur
when they grow and start to go out of the anus.

Which treatments are applied?

Conservative (supportive) treatment is effective in the initial period.

Conservative treatment;

1

Increasing dietary fiber intake (20-35 g daily)

2

Medicines that facilitate defecation (laxatives)

3

Sitz bath

4

Topical creams

5

Drugs that increase venous tone

Patients unresponsive to drug therapy; The treatment is planned according to the stage of the disease, the function of the breech muscles of the patient and the history of previous surgery, the age and gender of the patient. Sclerotherapy, rubber band ligation, laser photocoagulation etc. day-to-day, outpatient procedures can be done. The pain and complication rates of these methods are less, but the recurrence rate is higher than surgical procedures.

 

One of the surgical methods (hemorrhoidectomy, stapled hemorrhoidopexy, arterial ligation + mucopexy, etc.) is applied to patients whose other treatment methods are not suitable or unsuccessful.