Pseudo-Obstruction Decompression Using a Heald Anal Stent Pages 20-21

Guy Fairbairn Nash

Department of Surgery, Poole Hospital, Poole, UK

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12970/2311-9888.2014.02.02.1

Abstract: The effective and maintained decompression of pseudo-obstruction using the novel approach of a Heald anal stent is described. The Heald stent was placed trans-anally without the need for an anaesthetic, reducing luminal pressure allowing both initial decompression and maintenance of decompression of the rectum. This allowed the patient with significant medical co-morbidities to be discharged after a week without the need for operative intervention and thus reducing considerable patient risk.

Keywords: Pseudo-obstruction, treatment, Ogilvie syndrome, stent. Read more