Haemorrhoids are clumps, cushions or masses of tissue in the anal area containing blood vessels as well as the surrounding tissue that is composed of elastic fibres and muscles. Stool passes through this four centimetre-canal when it passes via the rectum for disposal. Haemorrhoids are normal because everyone has them. When these cushions become big enough to cause problems such as pain, swelling and bleeding, this is a time to worry. Four percent of the entire population worry about haemorrhoids when they become bigger and lead to other problems. Such an ailment can be equally found in both sexes and they are most prevalent in the age range of 45 to 65.
One of the many surgical and non-surgical procedures to cure this disease is stapled haemorrhoidectomy (stapled haemorrhoidopexy). It is a new surgical procedure intended for those suffering from 3rd degree haemorrhoids. It is considered a misnomer because this procedure does not take away the condition but the lax and larger haemorrhoidal supporting tissue which allow haemorrhoids to go downward.
Stapled haemorrhoidectomy involves inserting a round and hollow tube in the anal canal. A long thread or suture is placed or woven through such tube within the canal on top of the inner haemorrhoids. The thread or suture’s ends go out of the anus via this hollow tube. A disposable stapler having a round stapling device at its end is inserted through the initial tube so that the suture’s ends can be pulled out. When the suture is pulled, the expanded haemorroidal tissue which provides support gets pulled in the stapler’s jaws. The cushions of the haemorrhoids are pulled back into their usual state inside the anus. The next step is to fire the stapler so that it cuts offs the expanded haemorrhoidal tissue’s circumferential ring trapped inside the stapler and staples both the lower and upper edges of the tissue which has been cut.
Stapled haemorrhoidectomy (stapled haemorrhoidopexy) can be also be utilized for those suffering from 1st and 2nd degree haemorrhoids but it is ideal for 3rd and 4th grade degrees. If a sufferer also has small external haemorrhoids aside from internal ones, the former may be less difficult after this kind of surgical treatment.
Stapled hemorrhoidectomy is quicker than the usual haemorrhoidectomy because the former takes only half an hour. It is less painful than the traditional haemorrhoidectomy thus a sufferer can resume his usual habits or tasks after this procedure. There may be pressure in the rectum which makes one feel like defecating but this feeling shall go away in just a few days.
There are risks involved in stapled haemorrhoidectomy such as infection, bleeding, anal fissuring, rectal wall trauma, thinning of the rectal or anal wall because of scarring and recurring of external or internal haemorrhoids.
Stapled haemorrhoidectomy (stapled haemorrhoidopexy) can be used by sufferers with external and internal haemorrhoids but another option is the combination of stapled haemorrhoidectomy for the treatment of internal haemorrhoids and an easy resection of external ones.
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