Gastrointestinal dilation and prolapse

Introduction Prolapse of the rectum, or rectal prolapse, refers to the rectal valgus of the anal canal and prolapse outside the anus. Gastrointestinal dilation and rectal prolapse can be seen in some patients with elastic pseudo-yelcomatosis.

Cause

Causes of gastrointestinal dilatation and rectal prolapse:

Elastic pseudo-xanthoma is a systemic elastic fiber disorder, and the cause is unknown. Most people think that there are several aspects related to congenital factors:

1. Family genetics: According to the fact that the disease has a family history, it is considered that the disease is related to heredity.

2, endocrine disorders: thyroid or thymus hypertrophy, ovarian dysfunction, can cause the disease, it is inferred that this disease may be related to endocrine disorders.

3, metabolic disorders: Some people have a skin histological examination of this disease found elastic fiber formation and metabolic abnormalities. It has also been found that the skin collagen content of the lesion and the activity of the procollagen proline hydroxylase are decreased.

an examination

Related inspection

Fiberoptic gastroscopy small bowel angiography oral small intestine angiography

Diagnosis of gastrointestinal dilatation and rectal prolapse:

The disease occurs in young women. There are mainly skin damage, cardiovascular damage, digestive tract lesions, ocular lesions, neuropsychiatric lesions, and renal lesions. According to the skin with more friction, the yellowish to orange rash and thickening of the skin, poor elasticity, relaxation, and characteristic vascular lineage of the fundus and visceral embolism symptoms and signs can diagnose the disease.

Differential diagnosis

Differential diagnosis of gastrointestinal dilatation and rectal prolapse:

Need to pay attention to the identification of sclerosing atrophic moss scleroderma, skin flaccid and so on. None of the above diseases manifested in the skin, fundus and blood vessels at the same time as the disease.

The disease occurs in young women. There are mainly skin damage, cardiovascular damage, digestive tract lesions, ocular lesions, neuropsychiatric lesions, and renal lesions. According to the skin with more friction, the yellowish to orange rash and thickening of the skin, poor elasticity, relaxation, and characteristic vascular lineage of the fundus and visceral embolism symptoms and signs can diagnose the disease.

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