Constipation A Practical Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Rose, MD, MSEd, Suzanne (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Gynecology.; Gastroenterology.; Primary care (Medicine).; Medicine & Public Health.; Primary Care Medicine.

Constipation: A Practical Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment serves as an unmet resource for physicians and other health care providers, including trainees and students, who see patients with constipation. The text reviews pathophysiologic mechanisms and details evaluation and management strategies...

Table of Contents:

• Overview of Constipation
• Overview of Testing of Motility and of the Anorectum
• Chronic Constipation
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome with Constipation
• Colonic Inertia and Megacolon
• Pelvic Floor Dysfunction
• Constipation and Special Considerations:  The Elderly, Children, Pregnancy, Spinal Cord Injury, Metabolic Disorders and Systemic Diseases, Opioid-Induced, and History of Abuse
• Cases
• Putting it All Together.