Bowel Management in Paediatric Colorectal Disease
A special issue of Children (ISSN 2227-9067). This special issue belongs to the section "Pediatric Surgery".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 September 2025 | Viewed by 814
Special Issue Editors
Interests: paediatric surgery; paediatric colorectal disease; bowel management; Hirschsprung’s disease; anorectal malformations
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Paediatric colorectal conditions like anorectal malformation or Hirschsprung disease are often complicated by impairment of faecal continence and control. This can have a profound impact on the family and child in terms of quality of life, social function, and the development of relationships as adults. In spite of anatomical impairments of anorectal function, it should still be possible to allow children to achieve social continence through a process of effective control of stooling often referred to as “bowel management”.
In this Special Issue we will explore the background conditions that can lead to a requirement for bowel management. We will discuss the necessary investigations and approach for children with problems of incontinence and then go on to describe the individual features of an effective bowel management programme from a multidisciplinary perspective. Our proposed chapter summary would be as follows:
- Understanding of the anatomy and physiology of normal defaecation through infancy, childhood, and beyond;
- Structural abnormalities that lead to incontinence in childhood;
- Functional abnormalities that lead to incontinence in childhood;
- Detailed assessment of a patient prior to bowel management;
- Bowel management—surgeon’s perspective;
- Bowel management—specialist’s nursing perspective;
- Bowel management—psychologist’s perspective;
- Beyond bowel management: transition to adult hood and long-term care.
Dr. Judith Lindert
Dr. Joseph Curry
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- bowel management
- Hirschsprung disease
- anorectal malformation
- functional constipation
- spina bifida
- cloaca disease
- bowel function score
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