New Technology and Procedures for Colorectal Conditions

• Bowel prep – If you have been told to get a bowel prep, find instructions here.
• Colonoscopy – what to expect if you are to have a colonoscopy.
• Fecal incontinence – New treatment options for a common problem that patients don’t like to talk about.
• Flexible sigmoidoscopy – what to expect if you are to have a flexible sigmoidoscopy.
• Identification of patients at high risk for colon cancer – recommended programs for patients with family (genetic) history of colon cancer.
• TEM – transabdominal endoscopic microsurgery – less invasive technique for patients with certain rectal and colon cancers.
• Screening for colon and rectal cancer – recommended guidelines for early detection of colon and rectal cancers.
• Colostomy avoidance – colon resections now done with techniques that avoid the need for a colostomy.
• Constipation – patients are not aware that some types of constipation can be treated with surgery.
• Laparoscopic colon surgery – not all surgeries are optimally done by laparoscopic techniques.
• Inflammatory bowel disease – new treatment options.
• What are colon polyps and why are they important?
• Artifical anal sphincter – a new treatment for fecal incontinence that is offered by only a very few doctors.