A new surgical procedure successfully addresses a common lingering challenge—incontinence—faced by some families with young children who have undergone surgery for Hirschsprung disease. This ...

Assembled Multipurpose Instrument for Rectal Biopsies (A) and Actual Size of the Biopsy Capsule (B), Which Has Been Removed to Show the Knife Attached to the Pull Wire. Three to 5 biopsies are ...

The pull-through procedure is the best treatment for children with Hirschsprung disease. The procedure removes the portion of the intestine that does not function. A novel surgical procedure developed ...

Hirschsprung disease, also known as congenital megacolon, aganglionic megacolon or primary megacolon, is a functional bowel obstruction that usually manifests in newborn babies. It occurs due to the ...

Caused by a congenital absence of innervation at the end of the bowel, Hirschsprung’s disease (HD) results in functional obstruction of the gut. The rectum and sigmoid colon are typically affected, ...

Last week news broke of a 22-year-old man in China who had a large section of his colon removed. The man, Zhou Hai, had been constipated for a number of months. After seeking medical help for ...

THE diagnosis of Hirschsprung's disease is not always easy. The patient presenting a typical history of chronic constipation, with physical signs of a distended abdomen and an empty rectal ampulla, ...