Oral sodium phosphate solution: A review of its use as a colorectal cleanser

Drugs

Volumn 64, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 1697-1714

  Curran, Monique P ^a   Plosker, Greg L ^a  

^a ADIS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bowel cleansing; Colon cleansing; Pharmacodynamics; Sodium phosphate; Therapeutic use; Tolerability

Indexed keywords

ASPARTAME; BISACODYL; CALCIUM; CASEN FLEET; CASTOR OIL; CISAPRIDE; DISODIUM HYDROGEN PHOSPHATE; DIURETIC AGENT; FLEET; FOSFOSODA; LAXATIVE; MACROGOL; MAGNESIUM CITRATE; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; MANNITOL; METOCLOPRAMIDE; PICOSULFATE SODIUM; SENNA EXTRACT; SENNOSIDE; SIMETHICONE; SODIUM DIHYDROGEN PHOSPHATE; TANNIN;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANUS DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON MUCOSA; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL SURGERY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRYSTALLURIA; DIZZINESS; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; ENDOSCOPY; ENTEROPATHY; FATIGUE; FECES INCONTINENCE; FLATULENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUNGER; HYPERNATREMIA; HYPERPHOSPHATEMIA; HYPOCALCEMIA; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPOMAGNESEMIA; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; KIDNEY CALCIFICATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NAUSEA; PHOSPHATE BLOOD LEVEL; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; POTASSIUM CELL LEVEL; REVIEW; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SLEEP DISORDER; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE; THIRST; THORAX PAIN; VOMITING; X RAY;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; CATHARTICS; COLONOSCOPY; ELECTROLYTES; ENEMA; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; IRRIGATION; PHOSPHATES; SOLUTIONS;

CASTOR; SENNA;

EID: 4344704001     PISSN: 00126667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00003495-200464150-00009     Document Type: Review

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