Videodefecography: A study of the rectal motile pattern

Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 139-144

  Shafik, Ahmed ^a,c   Shafik, A A ^a   El Sibai, O ^b   Ali, Y A ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b MENOUFIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c NONE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Contraction waves; Intussusception; Mass squeeze; Peristalsis; Rectocele; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

BARIUM;

ADULT; ANUS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE REFLEX; PERISTALSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTOCELE; RECTUM DISEASE; RECTUM MOTILITY; RECTUM PROLAPSE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGMOID; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; STOMACH EMPTYING; VIDEORECORDER; VIDEORECORDING; VIDEOTAPE; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; DEFECATION; DEFECOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PERISTALSIS; RECTUM; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 0037771204     PISSN: 09301038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00276-003-0114-1     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Bannister JJ, Read NW, Donnely TC, Sun WM (1989) External and internal anal sphincter responses to rectal distension in normal subjects and in patients with idiopathic fecal incontinence. Br J Surg 76: 617-621
2. Bouchoucha M, Jais JP, Arhan P, Faverdin CL, Pellerin DF (1994) Variation of the rheological properties of the human rectal wall with distending volume. Clin Invest Med 17: 107-114
3. Dall FH, Jorgensen CS, Houe D, Gregersen H, Djurhuns JD (1993) Biomechanical wall properties of the human rectum. A study with impedance planimetry. Gut 34: 1581-1586
4. Felt Bersma RJ, Gort G, Meurissen SG (1991) Normal values in anal manometry and rectal sensation: a problem of range. Hepatogastroenterology 38: 444-449
5. Goyal RK, Hirand J (1996) The enteric nervous system. N Engl J Med 334: 1106-1115
6. Kellow JE (1996) Gastrointestinal motility and defecation. In: Greger R, Windhorst U (eds) Comprehensive human physiology, from cellular mechanisms to integration. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York, pp 1289-1308
7. Kumar D, Wingate DL (1985) Colorectal motility. In: Henry M, Swash M (eds) Coloproctology and the pelvic floor. Pathophysiology and management. Butterworth, Boston, pp 47-61
8. Madoff RD, Orsom WJ, Rothenberger DA, Goldberg SM (1990) Rectal compliance: a critical reappraisal. Int J Colorectal Dis 5: 37-40
9. Mahieu P, Pringor J, Podart P (1984) Defecography. I. Description of a new procedure and results in normal patients. Gastrointest Radiol 9: 247-251
10. Pedersen E, Harving H, Klemar B, Torring J (1978) Human anal reflexes. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 44: 813-818
11. Proano M, Camilleri M, Phillips SF, Brown ML, Thomforde GM (1990) Transit of solids through the human colon: regional quantitation in the unprepared bowel. Am J Physiol 258: G856-G862
12. Rasmussen O, Christiansen B, Sorensen M, Tetzschner T, Christiansen J (1990) Rectal compliance in the assessment of patients with fecal incontinence. Dis Colon Rectum 33: 650-653
13. Sarna SK (1991) Physiology and pathophysiology of colonic motor activity. Dig Dis Sci 36: 998-1018
14. Schemann M, Ehrlein HJ (1986) Postprandial patterns of canine jejunal motility and transit of luminal contents. Gastroenterology 90: 991-1000
15. Schouten WR, Gosselink MJ, Boerma MO, Ginai AK (1998) Rectal wall contractility in response to an evoked urge to defecate in patients with obstructed defecation. Dis Colon Rectum 41: 473-479
16. Shafik A (1991) Straining-levator reflex: the description of a new reflex and its clinical significance. Coloproctology 13: 314-319
17. Shafik A (1995) Electrorectography in chronic constipation. World J Surg 19: 772-775
18. Shafik A (1996) Sigmoidorectal junction reflex: role in the defecation mechanism. Clin Anat 9: 391-394
19. Shafik A (2001) Rectal inhibition by inferior rectal nerve stimulation in dogs. Recognition of a new reflex: the voluntary anorectal inhibition reflex. Eur J Gastroent Hepatol 13: 413-418
20. Shafik A, Ali YA, Afifi R (1997) Is the rectum a conduit or storage organ? Int Surg 82: 194-197
21. Shafik A, El-Sharkawy A, Sharaf WM (1997) Direct measurement of intra-abdominal pressure in various conditions. Eur J Surg 163: 883-887
22. Shafik A, El-Sibai O (2000) Rectal pacing: pacing parameters required for rectal evacuation of normal and constipated subjects. J Surg Res 88: 181-185
23. Shafik A, El-Sibai O, Mostafa RM, Shafik I (2002) Study of the mechanism of rectal motility: the "mass squeeze contraction". Arch Physiol Biochem 109: 418-423
24. Shafik A, El-Sibai O, Shafik AA (2000) Rectal pacing in patients with constipation due to rectal inertia: technique and results. Int J Colorectal Dis 15: 100-104