Surgical treatment of complete rectal prolapse

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Abstract
The Ripstein procedure was used to effect a cure of rectal procidentia in 30 patients. There was no operative mortality and morbidity was confined to problems related to 2 patients with intestinal obstruction, 1 with fecal impaction and 1 with wound infection. The operation is the preferred treatment in patients to control the anatomic and clinical abnormalities related to rectal procidentia. Associated colonic abnormalities, such as an extremely redundant sigmoid or associated diverticulitis, may dictate the choice of a different procedure that does not require introduction of a foreign material.

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