Abstract

PANIAGUA INTURIAS, Santiago; LARA PEREZ, Carlos Alberto  and  PAZ CABALLERO, Romina. Surgical treatment of anal incontinence, about a case. Rev. Inv. Inf. Sal. [online]. 2023, vol.18, n.45, pp.102-107. ISSN 2075-6194.  https://doi.org/10.52428/20756208.v18i45.927.

Anal incontinence is the inability to defer the evacuatory act, preventing voluntary control of rectal emptying and causing the involuntary discharge of fecal matter and gases; anal sphincter injury of obstetric origin is recognized as the most common cause of anal incontinence in healthy women; In addition, multiple other factors related to the pathology can be identified, such as trauma, surgery, nerve injury, spinal cord injury, mental disorders, and changes in the consistency of fecal matter. We present the case of a 37-year-old patient who was treated at the Hospital Obrero No. 2 of the National Health Fund in Cochabamba, Bolivia, for which she had anal incontinence for 12 years without being able to retain feces or gas. after a trauma to the internal and external anal sphincter, due to a complicated labor, which was addressed through surgery on two occasions, the second intervention being the definitive one and with which her condition was solved.

Keywords : Anal sphincter; anal incontinence; surgical treatment.