Rectal prolapse causes

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Shaghayegh Habibi, M.D.[2]

Causes

Common Causes:

• Rectal denervation
• Kinking of the redundant loop of sigmoid colon at the junction between the sigmoid colon and the rectum
• Loss of rectal compliance as a result of mesh placement
• Altered colonic motility