In recent years, a variety of colorectal disorders have been recognised among male homosexuals.Ī wide variety of intestinal parasites have been recovered from stools of homosexuals. In 1985, the Medical Journal of Malaysia indicated in a journal entitled Gay men bowel syndrome: A report of parasitic infection in homosexual patients: Gay men in this country have both higher rates of intercourse and many more sexual partners than do either straight men or gay women." Michael Heller's medical journal article in the Annals of Emergency Medicine entitled The Gay Bowel Syndrome: A Common Problem of Homosexual Patients in the Emergency states regarding gay bowel syndrome the following: "Frequently and promiscuity of sexual intercourse is probably a major risk factor. Glen Hastings and Richard Weber in 1993 wrote the following regarding gay bowel syndrome in the peer reviewed medical journal American Family Physician: "The 1980s brought a recognition of gay bowel disease and its similarities to inflammatory bowel disease." That "In recent years, it has been recognized that homosexual men are subject to a remarkable variety of colorectal disorders." Ī variety of colorectal disorders have been recognized among male homosexuals.Ī wide variety of intestinal parasites have been recovered from the stools of homosexuals. Michael Heller, who was a San Francisco physician, wrote in the Annals of Emergency Medicine in a article titled The Gay Bowel Syndrome: A Common Problem of Homosexual Patients in the Emergency Department Sohn and JG Robilotti Jr., who were among the authors of the previously cited article in the Annals of Clinical and Laboratory Science wrote in the American Journal of Gastroenterology regarding gay bowel syndrome that "It is important to recognize homosexual patients and the conditions to which they are predisposed.
Gay bowel syndrome is a clinical pattern of anorectal and colon diseases which occur with unusual frequency in homosexual patients (the diseases are not exclusive to male homosexuals). which is essentially a duplicate of the aforementioned article at Medscape). Bartlett which stated that gay bowel syndrome is a significant issue in regards HIV infection (In 2004, the Johns Hopkins HIV Guide website also featured a literature review article about gay bowel syndrome by the John G. In 2004, Medscape published an article by the noted HIV/AIDS specialist John G. Summary: All healthcare practitioners (including non-sexual health/HIV specialists) need to consider careful and thorough history taking (including sexual history) to identify those at risk. there seems to be a clustering of diseases in certain high-risk groups, especially those in urban areas with multiple sexual partners, recreational drug use, and possible concomitant HIV infection. Purpose of Review: This article aims to review the term 'gay bowel syndrome', including the recent research looking at increased rates of bowel infections in men who have sex with men (MSM), particularly in light of the recent Shigella outbreaks in MSM in London and New York, and considers whether 'gay bowel syndrome' is a syndrome that really exists and is worthy of further research and specific treatment, or whether the term continues to be obsolete and not useful. In 2014, the medical journal Current Opinion in Infectious Disease published a journal article entitled ' Gay bowel syndrome': relic or real (and returning) phenomenon? whose abstract indicated: The clinical diagnoses in decreasing order of frequency include condyloma acuminata, hemorrhoids, nonspecific proctitis, anal fistula, perirectal abscess, anal fissure, amebiasis, benign polyps, viral hepatitis, gonorrhea, syphilis, anorectal trauma and foreign bodies, shigellosis, rectal ulcers and lymphogranuloma venereum.
A clinical pattern of anorectal and colon diseases encountered with unusual frequency in these homosexual patients is termed the gay bowel syndrome. The clinical and pathological findings in a group of 260 homosexual men comprising 10% of a private proctologic practice are reviewed. The abstract for the 1976 journal article published in Annals of Clinical and Laboratory Science entitled The gay bowel syndrome: clinico-pathologic correlation in 260 cases describes gay bowel syndrome in the following manner:
Gay bowel syndrome was first named as an illness in 1976 in the medical literature via the journal Annals of Clinical and Laboratory Science. Human Immunodeficiency Virus attacking T4 lymphocytes