Diagnosis of hemorrhoids
Preliminary diagnosis of hemorrhoids is performed by examination with palpation, as well as analysis of the patient's clinical history and subjective complaints. The acute disease has pronounced symptoms: severe proctological pain, bleeding, thickening and enlargement of venous nodes, pain during defecation. With a chronic course, the manifestations are mitigated, but they manifest themselves in episodic attacks.
Hemorrhoids are diagnosed in the following ways:
- Examination, palpation and probing of the anal canal
- Anoscopy
- Rectoromanoscopy
- Intestinal irrigoscopy (radiography with barium passage)
- Ultrasound of abdominal organs
- Ultrasound sonography of varicose veins
In some cases, additional gastroscopy is recommended for patients to determine problems with the stomach, esophagus and intestines.
The decision regarding therapeutic tactics is made in accordance with the clinical picture, the severity of the disease, the age and gender of the patient.
Hemorrhoid treatment abroad
Hemorrhoids are treated abroad using both conservative and surgical methods. From the point of view of atraumatic and sparing effects, the former are preferable, but it is often possible to achieve lasting results only with the help of the latter.
Hemorrhoids are treated in foreign clinics and departments in the following ways:
- Sclerosis of venous nodes (new generation sclerosant drugs are used)
- Electrocoagulation
- Suture ligatures
- Ligation with latex rings
- Microsurgical and traditional hemorrhoidectomy
- Drug treatment (local + systemic)
Drug therapy is used both independently and in combination. In the acute phase of pathology, only the use of medications is possible, since any invasive interventions are excluded. Doctors are focusing their efforts on preventing the recurrence, progression, and complications of hemorrhoids in the future.
