Treatment of irritable bowel syndrome with colonic pacing: Evaluation of pacing parameters required for correction of the "tachyarrhythmia" of the IBS

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 51, Issue 60, 2004, Pages 1708-1712

  Shafik, Ahmed ^a,c   Shafik, Ali A ^a   Ahmed, Ismail ^a   El Sibai, Olfat ^b  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b MENOUFIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c NONE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Action potentials; Electrodes; Pacemaker; Slow waves

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; AMPLITUDE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON PACING; COLON TACHYARRHYTHMIA; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; ELECTRICAL STIMULATOR; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSIGMOIDOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY; HUMAN; INTESTINE PRESSURE; IRRITABLE COLON; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; PACEMAKER; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WIDTH; SIGMOID; SLOW WAVE; WAVEFORM;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMANS; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PROBABILITY; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 6344231255     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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