Office-based management of fecal incontinence

Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 423-433

  Costilla, Vanessa C ^a,b   Foxx Orenstein, Amy E ^a   Mayer, Anita P ^a,c   Crowell, Michael D ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b Department of Internal Medicine ^*  (United States)

^c Division of Women's Health Internal Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Anal incontinence; Bariatric surgery incontinence; Fecal incontinence; Fecal seepage; Flatal incontinence; Obesity incontinence

Indexed keywords

ALOSETRON; AMITRIPTYLINE; ATROPINE PLUS DIPHENOXYLATE; CLONIDINE; COLESTIPOL; COLESTYRAMINE; DOCUSATE SODIUM; GUAR GUM; ISPAGULA; LOPERAMIDE; METHYLCELLULOSE; OPIATE; PROBIOTIC AGENT; PROMETHEUS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANORECTAL DISEASE; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ANOREXIA; ANUS INJURY; ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BIRTH INJURY; BLOATING; BRADYCARDIA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONGENITAL DISORDER; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION DISORDER; DEFECOGRAPHY; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; DEVICE INFECTION; DIARRHEA; DRY SKIN; DYSPEPSIA; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EROSION; EUPHORIA; FATIGUE; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FIBER; FLATULENCE; FLUSHING; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY; GINGIVA BLEEDING; HEADACHE; HEMATURIA; HEMORRHOID; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; IMMOBILIZATION; INFLAMMATION; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; ISCHEMIC COLITIS; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MUSCLE CRAMP; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; NAUSEA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBESITY; PARALYTIC ILEUS; PARITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PELVIS RADIOGRAPHY; PREGNANCY; PRURITUS; RASH; RECTUM PROLAPSE; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; RISK FACTOR; SACRAL NERVE STIMULATION; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; SMOKING; SPHINCTEROPLASTY; TASTE DISORDER; TOXIC MEGACOLON; URINE INCONTINENCE; URINE RETENTION; VOMITING; WEAKNESS; WEIGHT REDUCTION; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 84880880259     PISSN: 15547914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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