Hospital GroupJohannesburg, South Africa
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Netcare Group provides innovative, quality healthcare in South Africa and the United Kingdom.
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Hospitals and clinics offering Proctology in South Africa
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Hospital GroupJohannesburg, South Africa
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Life Healthcare is a leading private hospital operator in South Africa and primarily serves the market for privately insured individuals, representing approximately eight million people. The group provides mainly acute care, high technology private hospital services.
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Private HospitalMthatha, South Africa
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Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital is a large Provincial government funded hospital situated in central Mthatha in South Africa. It is a tertiary teaching hospital and forms part of the Mthatha Hospital Complex.
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Private HospitalCape Town, South Africa
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The extensive hospital network includes 64 hospitals (of which 57 are majority owned by Life Healthcare and another seven in which the group holds substantial minority ownership), providing a range of healthcare services throughout South Africa.
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Description of Proctology:
What is Proctology?
This is a branch of medicine that deals with diagnosing, treating and managing disorders and diseases of the colon, rectum, and anus. Proctology is also known as colorectal surgery. Medical doctors who practice proctology are known as proctologists. A proctoscope is an instrument that is a hollow metal tube that is short, straight and rigid.
Common disorders diagnosed by proctologists include:
Signs and symptoms that you need to see a proctologist
What Procedures are performed in Proctology?
Surgical treatment
- Hemorrhoids: These are inflamed or enlarged veins near the anal and rectal area of the body, which may cause bleeding and pain when having bowel movements.
- Anal Fissures: These are tears, cracks or rips in anal tissue due to overuse of the colorectal area, hardened stool or external causes.
- Fistulas: These are abnormal tissue passageways or connections between rectal tissue and anal tissue.
- Fecal Incontinence: This is the inability to control bowel movements
- Rectal Prolapse: This is a malfunction of rectal tissue which causes protrusion of the rectum through the anus.
- Imperforate Anus: A birth defect characterized by a malformed anus in babies
- Chronic disorders: Inflammatory bowel diseases such as Ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease.
- Rectal Cancer, Anal Cancer, Colon Cancer.
- Anal Injury.
- Foreign Objects in the colon, anus or rectum.
- Severe constipation
Signs and symptoms that you need to see a proctologist
- Feeling or seeing an external anal lump
- Discharge from the anus
- A red swelling on the buttocks that is painful
- Change in size of your bowel movement or bowel habits
- A diagnosis that the source of your anemia may be in your anus, rectum or colon
- You require a screening colonoscopy
- You have a history of polyps or colorectal cancer and need a screening colonoscopy
- You want to manage irritable bowel syndrome
- You need an operation for a colon inflammation, inflammatory bowel disease or colorectal cancer
What Procedures are performed in Proctology?
- Diagnostic procedures
- Colonoscopy: The doctor uses this procedure to examine the whole large bowel
- Proctoscopy: A proctoscope is inserted into the rectum allowing for an unobstructed view of the interior of the rectal cavity. This procedure is normally done to inspect for rectal polyps or hemorrhoids. The procedure might be mildly uncomfortable as the proctoscope is put into the rectum.
- Sigmoidoscopy: This minimally invasive medical examination of the large intestine, from the rectum upto the last part of the colon.
- Defecating proctography: This is a type of medical imaging in a patient's defecation are observed at various stages using a fluoroscope.
Surgical treatment
- Colectomy: This surgery removes all or part of your colon.
- Polypectomy: This is surgery that removes polyps that may turn cancerous.
- Strictureplasty: The surgery restores free to flow through the bowel without removing the narrowed segments.
- Hemorrhoidectomy: This is surgery to remove severe or extensive hemorrhoids that are internal or external.
- Anoplasty: This is surgery that repairs defect so that stool can be able to move through the rectum.
- Colostomy: This procedure provides an alternate opening for stool to pass and is also called hemorrhoid banding.
About Proctology
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Risks
• Infection of the surgical site
• Anastomotic leakage
• Tearing of the intestinal wall by the instrument used
• Localized bleeding
After care
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