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The article presents the results of surgical treatment of patients with stages III to IV hemorrhoids followed by an observation period of 45 days, which is designed to improve the results of surgical treatment of this category of patients. The surgical treatment methods included doppler-guided transanal hemorrhoiddearterialization with mucopexy (DDM) (Group I) and harmonic scalpel hemorrhoidectomy (HSH) (Group II). Operated patients underwent all necessary examinations according to the “per protocol” principle. Study Design: single-center controlled randomized prospective. The effectiveness of DDM was comparable to that of hemorrhoidectomy (HE), which made it possible to significantly reduce the duration of the operation (DDM 17.9 ± 6.1 min, GE 34.5 ± 10.1 min (p <0.01) ), reduce the level of pain in the postoperative period (DDM an average of 2.5 points, HE 4.8 points (p <0.01)), reduce the frequency of narcotic analgesics (DDM an average of 1.3 doses, HE an average of 6.1 doses (p <0.01)) and shorten the period of disability (DDM 14.4 ± 5.2 days, HE 30.3 ± 5.4 days (p <0.01)) patients with stages III to IV disease.

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