Clinical and investigative assessment of constipation: A study from a referral center in western India

Indian Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 530-536

  Shah, Nimish ^a   Baijal, Rajiv ^a   Kumar, Praveen ^a   Gupta, Deepak ^a   Kulkarni, Sandeep ^a   Doshi, Soham ^a   Amarapurkar, Deepak ^a  

^a Jagjivan Ram Hospital   (India)

Author keywords

Anorectal manometry; Biofeedback therapy; Colon transit study

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CREATININE;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGE; ANORECTAL OBSTRUCTION SENSATION; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BALLOON EXPULSION TEST; BIOFEEDBACK THERAPY; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BRISTOL STOOL SCALE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLONOSCOPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLETE SPONTANEOUS BOWEL MOVEMENT; CONSTIPATION; CONSTIPATION PREDOMINANT IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; DEFECATION DISORDER; DETRUSOR DYSSYNERGIA; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE DURATION; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FINGER EVACUATION; FUNCTIONAL CONSTIPATION; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; INCOMPLETE EVACUATION; INDIA; INTESTINE FUNCTION; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; LARGE INTESTINE DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORMAL TRANSIT CONSTIPATION; OPEN STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOLITARY RECTAL ULCER SYNDROME; STRAINING; THERAPY; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; VERY ELDERLY; AGED; ANAL CANAL; CLASSIFICATION; DEFECATION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; IRRITABLE COLON; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; OGILVIE SYNDROME; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RECTUM; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANAL CANAL; BIOFEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGY; COLONIC PSEUDO-OBSTRUCTION; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HUMANS; INDIA; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTUM; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922546709     PISSN: 02548860     EISSN: 09750711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12664-014-0505-8     Document Type: Article

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