Clinical evaluation and management of neurogenic bowel after spinal cord injury

Spinal Cord

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 301-308

  Correa, G I ^a   Rotter, K P ^b  

^a Hospital del Trabjador de Santiago   (Chile)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bowel function; Bowel outcomes; Chronic constipation; Colonic transit; Neuropathic bowel; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

CISAPRIDE; DOCUSATE SODIUM;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ADULT; AGED; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON; COLONOSCOPY; COMPLICATION; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FLATULENCE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTESTINE FUNCTION; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; LABORATORY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OBSERVATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM; REFLEX; REHABILITATION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SYMPTOM;

EID: 0034065529     PISSN: 13624393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.sc.3100851     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. 1 Banwell J, Creasey G, Aggarwall A, Mortimer T. Management of the neurogenic bowel in patients with spinal cord injury. Urol Clin N Am 1993; 20: 517-526.
2. 2 Stiens SA, Bergman SB, Goetz LL. Neurogenic bowel dysfunction after spinal cord injury: clinical evaluation and rehabilitative management. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 1997; 78: 86-102.
3. 3 Kannisto M, Rintala R. Bowel function in adults who have sustained spinal cord injury in childhood. Paraplegia 1995; 33: 701-703.
4. 4 Levi R, Hulting C, Nash M, Seger A. The Stockholm spinal cord injury study. 1. Medical problems in a regional SCI population. Paraplegia 1995; 33: 308-315.
5. 5 Stone JM, Nino-Murcia M, Wolfe VA, Perkash I. Chronic gastrointestinal problems in spinal cord injury patients: a prospective analysis. Am J Gastroenterol 1990; 85: 1114-1119.
6. 6 Gore RM, Mintzer RA, Calenoff L. Gastrointestinal complications of spinal cord injury. Spine 1981; 6: 538-544.
7. 7 Badiali D et al. Sequential treatment of chronic constipation in paraplegic subjects. Spinal Cord 1997; 35: 116-120.
8. 8 Karlbom U, Pahlman L, Nilsson S, Graf W. Relationships between defecographic findings, rectal emptying, and colonic transit time in constipated patients. Gut 1995; 6: 907-912.
9. 9 Talley NJ et al. Constipation in an elderly community: a study of prevalence and potential risk factors. Am J Gastroenterol 1996; 91: 19-25.
10. 10 Heaton KW et al. Defecation frequency and timing, and stool form in the general population: a prospective study. Gut 1992; 33: 818-824.
11. 11 Cameron K, Nyulasi Y, Collier G, Brown D. Assessment of the effect of increased dietary fibre intake on bowel function in patients with spinal cord injury. Spinal Cord 1996; 34: 277-283.
12. 12 Geders JM, Gaing A, Bauman WA, Korsten MA. The effect of cisapride on segmental colonic transit time in patients with spinal cord injury. Am J Gastroenterol 1995; 90: 285-289.
13. 13 Glickman S, Kamm MA. Bowel dysfunction in spinal cord-injury patients. Lancet 1996; 347: 1651-1653.
14. 14 King JC, Currie DM, Wright E. Bowel training in Spina Bifida: Importance of education patient compliance, age, and anal reflexes. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 1994; 75: 243-247.
15. 15 Stiens SA. Reduction in bowel program duration with polyethylene glycol based bisacodil suppositories. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 1995; 76: 674-677.
16. 16 Weingarden SI. The gastrointestinal system and spinal cord injury. Clinics of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 1992; 3: 765-781.
17. 17 Lisenmeyer TA, Stone JM. Chap 36: Neurogenic Bladder and Bowel Dysfunction. In: Delisa J, Gans B (eds), Rehabilitation Medicine, Principles and Practice, 2nd edn. JB Lippincott: Philadelphia: Pennsylvania 1993, pp 735-765.
18. 18 Pollock LJ, Finkelman I. The digestive apparatus in injuries to the spinal cord and cauda equina. Surg Clin North Am 1954; 34: 259-268.
19. 19 Arhan P et al. Segmental Colonic Transit Time. Dis Colon Rectum 1981; 24: 625-629.
20. 20 Karasick S, Ehrlich SM. Is constipation a disorder of defecation or impaired motility: Distinction based on defecography and colonic transit studies. Am J Radiology 1996; 166: 63-66.
21. 21 Beuret-Blanquart et al. Colonic transit time and anorectal manometric anomalies in 19 patients with complete transection of the spinal cord. J Auton Nerv Syst 1990; 30: 199-208.
22. 22 Bouchoucha M et al. What is the meaning of colorectal transit time measurement? Dis Col Rectum 1992; 35: 773-782.
23. 23 Kerhavarzian A et al. Delayed colonic transit time in spinal cord-injured patients measured by indium-111 amberlite scintigraphy. Am J Gastroenterol 1995; 90: 1295-1300.
24. 24 Madsen JL, Hendel L. Gastrointestinal transit times of radiolabeled meal in progressive systemic sclerosis. Digest Dis Sci 1992; 37: 1404-1408.
25. 25 Menardo G et al. Large bowel transit in paraplegic patients. Dis Colon Rectum 1987; 30: 924-928.
26. 26 Metcalf AM et al. Simplified assessment of segmental colonic transit. Gastroenterology 1987; 92: 40-47.
27. 27 Roberts JP et al. Oral (111 In) DTPA scintigraphic assessment of colonic transit in constipated subjects. Digest Dis Sci 1993; 38: 1032-1039.
28. 28 Wald A. Colonic and anorectal motility testing in clinical practice. Am J Gastroenterol 1994; 89: 2109-2115.
29. 29 Rasmussen O, Christiansen J. Physiology and pathophysiology of anal function. Scand J Gastroenterol 31 (Suppl) 1996; 216: 169-174.
30. 30 Stone JM, Wolfe VA, Nino-Murcia M, Perkash I. Colostomy as treatment for complications of spinal cord injury. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 1990; 71: 514-518.
31. 31 Longo W, Ballantyne G, Modlin I. The colon, anorectum, and spinal cord patient. A review of the functional alterations of denervated hindgut. Dis Col Rectum 1989; 32: 261-267.
32. 32 Brunton LL. Laxantes. In: Goodman y Gillman, Las Bases Farmacológicas de la Terapéutica, 7a Edición, Editorial Médica Panamericana, 1986; 948-957.
33. 33 Wrenn K. Fecal impaction. New Engl J Med 1989; 321: 658-662.
34. 34 Carone R, Vercelli D, Bertapelle P. Effects of cisapride on anorectal and vesicourethral function in spinal cord injured patients. Paraplegia 1993; 31: 125-127.
35. 35 Cummings JH. Progress report. Laxative abuse. Gut 1974; 15: 758-766.
36. 36 Chapman RW et al. Effect of oral dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate on intake-output studies of human small and large intestine. Gastroenterology 1985; 89: 489-493.
37. 37 De Groot GH, De Pagter GF. Effects of Cissapride on Constipation due to a neurological lesion. Paraplegia 1988; 26: 159-161.
38. 38 Hellström PM, Aly A, Johansson C. Cisapride stimulates small intestinal motility and relieves constipation in miclopathy due to cervical spinal stenosis: case report. Paraplegia 1990; 28: 261-264.
39. 39 Kamm MA. Idiopathic Constipation: Any Movement? Scand J Gastroenterol 27 (Suppl) 1992; 192: 106-109.
40. 40 Martindale W. Part 1: Gastrointestinal Agents. In The Extra Pharmacopeia, 29th edn: The Pharmaceutical Press, 1989, 1078-1107.
41. 41 Micromedex. International Healthcare Series. Drug Evaluation Monographs 1995; Vol 86.
42. 42 Rajendran SK et al. Gastrointestinal transit after spinal cord injury: effect of cisapride. Am J Gastroenterol 1992; 87: 1614-1617.
43. 43 Smith B. Effect of irritant purgatives on the myenteric plexus in man and the mouse. Gut 1968; 9: 139-143.
44. 44 Fealey RD, Szurszewski JH, Merrit JL, DiMagno EP. Effect of traumatic spinal cord transection on human upper gastrointestinal motility and gastric emptying. Gastroenterology 1984; 87: 69-75.
45. 45 Fenton-Lee D, Yeo BW, Jones RF, Engel S. Colonic volvulus in the spinal cord injured patient. Paraplegia 1993; 31: 393-397.
46. 46 Binnie NR, Creasey GH, Edmond P, Smith AN. The action of cisapride on the chronic constipation of paraplegia. Paraplegia 1988; 26: 151-158.
47. 47 Etienne M, Verlinden M, Brassinne A. Treatment with cisapride of the gastrointestinal and urological sequelae of spinal cord transection: case report. Paraplegia 1988; 26: 162-164.