Persistant cloaca in adult with EDS ... Am I the only one

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Hi all,

Every once in a while I feel I am the only one with rare GI duplication

problems. As someone over 50 that is.

Of late this one is truly weird. While persistent cloaca does exist I only

find information about it occurring in babies, children. Most cases have no

symptoms or is fixed by surgery early in life. Or, it may simply be found at

autopsy.

The reason I consider that I may be a rare over fifty year old person with

this condition is that this year they did find the apparant second rectum. Which

does resembles the persistant cloaca. It would explain symptoms I have and

why I appear to have bladder duplication -- symptoms. When you come to the

question of if there was no suitable exit from my body it should have had some

effect ... well consider it did. But everything EDS stretched. And years later

is

the apparent source of my Autonomic Dysfunction.

The condition is related to being born with congenital renal agenesis. Or

perhaps my Mom took DES but that cannot be proved. My one right kidney is a

fact.

The left side rectal duplication is a fact. Why not a cloaca.

I ask these questions because I have up coming appointment with specialists

in June. Caro

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PubMed article: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&

db=PubMed&list_uids=14501643&dopt=Abstract

1: Warne SA, Wilcox DT, Creighton S, Ransley PG. Related Articles, Links

Long-term gynecological outcome of patients with persistent cloaca.

J Urol. 2003 Oct;170(4 Pt 2):1493-6.

PMID: 14501643 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE