We present the case of an 81-year-old woman without interesting medical precedents excepting a moderated cognitive deterioration (with partial dependence for activities of daily living). She was taken to the hospital by her relatives after they found her in the bathroom presenting with intestinal loops exiting through her anus. The presence of a rectal prolapse was not among her precedents ().\nOn the first exploration, we recognized an abdominal excavation, which was painless on palpation, and we observed many small intestine loops with a congestive aspect exiting through the anus. When the patient arrived, she was hypotensive and tachycardic. After the first resuscitation attempt, an urgent blood test was requested, and the results showed albumin, 3; C-reactive protein, 47.3 mg/dL; and 19,700 leukocytes with neutrophilia, indicating an urgent need for surgery. The patient was taken to the operating room less than two hours after the beginning of the symptoms, and during the surgery, her hemodynamic condition remained the same.\nFor the surgery, the patient was placed in a modified lithotomy position, and two areas (abdominal and perineal) were prepared. After checking the difficulty of reducing the intestine exclusively through the anus, we performed an exploratory laparotomy, which revealed the absence of small intestine loops in the cavity; these had been moved to the pelvis and this was causing an important traction of the mesentery root. As a result, a manual reduction of the loops to the cavity through intraperitoneal traction was done; this was controlled from the perineal field. After the reduction had been completed, a 3 to 4 cm lineal craniocaudal perforation in the antimesenteric portion of the upper rectum was objectified (RIS II/AAC III). An important flaccidity of the entire pelvic musculature which contained a large rectovaginal pouch was observed, which resulted in both the superior rectum and the peritoneal reflection leaning on the pelvic floor (). The peritoneal cavity was abundantly washed with hot saline, and after some minutes, the loops initiated a visible peristalsis and took on a normal coloration. Later, the superior rectum and the sigmoid colon were dissected until the promontory, and an anterior resection of the rectum and a terminal colostomy in the left iliac region (Hartmann's procedure) were performed ().\nLater, the patient's relatives told us that she had difficulties defecating and had frequently manipulate herself to extract her feces. The patient was admitted to the intensive care unit for 3 days where she remained hemodynamically stable and her ventilatory support was ceased without incidence. She had a slow recovery, and on the 6th day tolerated oral intake well. She was discharged after 13 days, and two months later remained asymptomatic.
A 73-year-old woman who had had a 3-year history of concomitant rectal and vaginal prolapse came to the hospital with the chief complaint of a huge part of her bowels suddenly coming out of her anus. There was a pinkish bowel coming out 7 h before. By coughing, the bowel outside became longer and longer over time until it reached the size of 200 cm. It occurred to the patient who had fallen down on the floor in a sitting position. There was no severe abdominal pain and no history of repeated episodes of colicky pain, as usually happens in intussusception case [].\nOn physical examination, an evisceration of small bowel was seen and so was vaginal prolapse (Fig. ). The patient had a weak general state, no bowel sounds, no muscular rigidity, and no general peritonitis. The length of the bowel that went out of the anus was around 200 cm and it was not necrotic. Surgery was performed through midline incision, and the surgeon found the small bowel entering a tear defect on the sigmoid wall. Around 10 mL of peritoneal fluid mixed with fecal materials was found in the surrounding ruptured area. A redundant sigmoid was also found and the eviscerated ileum was still viable and was gently pulled out of the defect on the sigmoid wall until all the eviscerated ileum was repositioned into the abdominal cavity. The rupture of the sigmoid wall was stitched using primary suture and brought out as a loop sigmoidostomy for safety. The patient was allowed to go home on the 5th day and after 30 days the patient had recovered uneventfully.