Effect of different doses of erythromycin on colonic motility in patients with slow transit constipation

Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 209-213

  Bassotti, Gabrio ^a,c,d   Chiarioni, G ^b   Vantini, I ^b   Morelli, A ^a   Whitehead, W E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d POLICLINICO MONTELUCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Colon; Erythromycin; Manometry; Motility

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ERYTHROMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON MOTILITY; CONSTIPATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; INTESTINE MOTILITY; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MANOMETRY;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLONOSCOPY; CONSTIPATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ERYTHROMYCIN; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0031896666     PISSN: 00442771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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