Pregnancy and postpartum bowel changes: Constipation and fecal incontinence

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 521-529

  Shin, Grace Hewon ^a   Toto, Erin Lucinda ^a   Schey, Ron ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTULOSE; LAXATIVE; LOPERAMIDE;

ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ANUS CONTINENCE; CESAREAN SECTION; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; FECES INCONTINENCE; FORCEPS DELIVERY; HEMORRHOID; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTAL DELIVERY; INTESTINAL DYSMOTILITY; LABOR STAGE 2; PARITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PELVIC FLOOR MUSCLE TRAINING; PELVIS FLOOR; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SHOULDER DYSTOCIA; VAGINAL DELIVERY; ANAL CANAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HEMORRHOIDS; INJURIES; MANOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RECTUM; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

ANAL CANAL; CONSTIPATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HEMORRHOIDS; HUMANS; MANOMETRY; PELVIC FLOOR; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RECTUM; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84927783901     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ajg.2015.76     Document Type: Review

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