Professor Peng Peng from the Yangzhou Armed Police Hospital's Anorectal Center pointed out that many patients cannot distinguish between hemorrhoids and anal fissures. Some patients even take hemorrhoid medication to treat anal fissures, not only delaying treatment but also leading to more serious anorectal diseases — anal fistulas. Professor Peng Peng hopes that through this article, patients will understand the symptoms of anal fissures, allowing those who mistakenly believe they have hemorrhoids to clearly identify their condition and seek medical attention promptly.
Symptoms of Anal Fissures:
1. Pain: Pain is a symptom of early-stage anal fissures, characterized by intense and persistent pain that can gradually worsen over several hours before easing. This pain occurs during bowel movements and may also be triggered by squatting or sitting.
2. Bleeding: During defecation, the wound may be damaged, causing bleeding from the fissure. Generally, the amount of bleeding is small, with blood streaks on the stool or drops of fresh blood after defecation, sometimes leaving blood on the toilet paper.
3. Constipation: Many patients delay bowel movements out of fear of severe pain, reducing both the frequency and time of defecation. This causes stool to remain in the rectum for longer periods, absorbing all moisture and becoming hard. When such stool is passed, it can exacerbate the fissure, deepen the wound, and increase the pain. This cycle can lead to chronic constipation, requiring the use of laxatives, which may result in anal canal stenosis and drug-dependent constipation.
4. Itching: Secretions from ulcerated fissures or subcutaneous fistulas, as well as secretions from anal glands, can irritate the anal skin, causing anal eczema and itching. Patients often feel dampness around the anus and may develop superficial cracks or skin damage.
5. Systemic Symptoms: Severe pain can increase the patient’s mental burden, affect rest, and cause neurasthenia. Some patients reduce food intake out of fear of defecation, eventually leading to mild anemia and malnutrition. Women may experience irregular menstruation and lower back or sacral pain. During the infection phase of anal fissures, fever, swelling, and pus discharge may occur.
Experts from the Yangzhou Armed Police Hospital's Anorectal Center introduced traditional methods for treating anal fissures, including fumigation, manual dilation, and incision. Fumigation is effective for early-stage fissures with smaller wounds, but old fissures are best treated surgically. While the incision method has better therapeutic effects compared to fumigation and manual dilation, it has disadvantages such as a long hospital stay (typically 20-30 days) and prolonged patient pain.
Minimally invasive therapy, widely applied in foreign proctology circles, is recognized by patients for its advantages of no hospitalization, painlessness, and extremely low recurrence rates.
The Yangzhou Armed Police Hospital's Anorectal Center reminds that HCPT minimally invasive surgery uses high-frequency capacitive field heat principles. Through a rectal fiber mirror inserted into the anus and monitored by a screen, the surgery performs minimally invasive electrocoagulation directly on the anal fissure, causing it to dry and close. Clinical verification shows that this technology effectively treats anal fissures with the advantages of being painless, requiring no hospitalization, and having short surgical times, making it the best method for treating anal fissures to date.
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