[Fecal incontinence--new surgical treatments. ABS-artificial bowel sphincter]

Feacal incontinence is a severe symptom in our society. The main treatment of incontinence in cases of anterior muscle defect, was done by anterior sphinkteroplany. The successrate is very high. All the other alternatives of restoring continence were not very effective The final treatment was always a permanent stoma. New developments over the last years showed us two more possibilities of restoring continence. The dynamic graciloplasty and the artificial bowel sphinkter (ABS) are two new ways of treating feacal incontinence.