Northwest Institute for Digestive Surgery in Post Falls, Idaho provides the best non-surgical treatment of hemorrhoids and anal fissures in the Northwest. We're striving to provide painless homorrhoid procedures and remove invasive, painful surgery. If proper hydration and additional fiber does not help it's time to obtain a consultation at Northwest Institute for Digestive Surgery.
Hemorrhoids are vascular structures in the anal canal. In their normal state, they are cushions that help with stool control. They become a disease when swollen or inflamed. Internal hemorrhoids usually present with painless, bright red rectal bleeding when defecating. External hemorrhoids often result in pain and swelling in the area of the anus. In addition to a variety of nonsurgical hemorrhoid treatments, surgical solutions include hemorrhoid banding and hemorrhoidectomy.
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Colonoscopy is a test that allows your doctor to look at the inner lining of your large intestine (rectum and colon). A thin, flexible tube called a colonoscope is used to look at the colon. A colonoscopy helps find ulcers, colon polyps, tumors, and areas of inflammation or bleeding.
During sigmoidoscopy, a doctor looks at part of the colon and the rectum. To do this, the doctor uses a thin, flexible, hollow, lighted tube called a sigmoidoscope that has a tiny video camera on the end. Because the scope is only about 2 feet long, the doctor is able to see the entire rectum but less than half of the colon with this exam.
An anoscopy is an examination using a small, rigid, tubular instrument called an anoscope. This is inserted a few inches into the anus in order to evaluate problems of the anal canal.
A computerized tomography (CT) scan combines a series of X-ray images taken from different angles and uses computer processing to create cross-sectional images of the inside of your body. CT scan images provide more detailed information than plain X-rays do.
Magnetic resonance imaging of the body uses a powerful magnetic field, radio waves and a computer to produce detailed pictures of the inside of your body. It is used to help diagnose or monitor treatment for a variety of conditions.
Treatments and solutions designed to bring you relief.
Ventral rectopexy has gained popularity in treating full-thickness rectal external and internal prolapse. The procedure has been shown to achieve acceptable anatomic results with low recurrence rates, few complications, and improvements of both constipation and fecal incontinence.
Rectal prolapse surgery through the area around the anus (perineum) is called perineal rectosigmoidectomy. During this procedure, the surgeon removes a portion of the rectum and colon and attaches the remaining rectum to the remaining colon without making any abdominal incisions.
During this brief and painless procedure, our physician specialist places a small rubber band around the tissue just above the hemorrhoid where there are very few pain-sensitive nerve endings. Unlike traditional banding techniques that use a metal-toothed clamp to grasp the tissue, we use a gentle suction device, reducing the risk of pain and bleeding.
A hemorrhoidectomy is a surgical procedure to remove internal or external hemorrhoids that are extensive or severe. Surgical hemorrhoidectomy is the most effective treatment for hemorrhoids.
Colonoscopy is a test that allows your doctor to look at the inner lining of your large intestine (rectum and colon). A thin, flexible tube called a colonoscope is used to look at the colon. A colonoscopy helps find ulcers, colon polyps, tumors, and areas of inflammation or bleeding.
Colonic polypectomy is the removal of colorectal polyps in order to prevent them from turning cancerous. Gastrointestinal polyps can be removed endoscopically through colonoscopy or esophagogastroduodenoscopy, or surgically if the polyp is too large to be removed endoscopically.
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