Addition of senna improves quality of colonoscopy preparation with magnesium citrate

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 15, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 1759-1763

  Vradelis, Stergios ^a   Kalaitzakis, Evangelos ^b   Sharifi, Yalda ^a   Buchel, Otto ^a   Keshav, Satish ^a   Chapman, Roger W ^a   Braden, Barbara ^a  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bowel preparation; Colonoscopy; Magnesium citrate; Polyp; Senna

Indexed keywords

MAGNESIUM CITRATE; SENNA EXTRACT; CITRIC ACID; LAXATIVE; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOATING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON LAVAGE; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTESTINE PREPARATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MORNING DOSAGE; NAUSEA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM; REPEAT PROCEDURE; SENNA; SIGMOID; AGED; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED; CATHARTICS; CITRIC ACID; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENNA EXTRACT;

EID: 65649083783     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.15.1759     Document Type: Article

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