Constipation Etiology, Evaluation, and Management /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wexner, Steven D. (Editor), Duthie, Graeme S. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2006.
• Edition: Second Edition.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Gynecology.; Gastroenterology.; Proctology.; Rectum > Surgery.; Surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Colorectal Surgery.; General Surgery.

The second edition of Constipation is a comprehensive text on the etiology, evaluation, and management of chronic, intractable constipation. As well as being debilitating, constipation is a complaint with many causes and can also be a symptom of more serious pathological changes. Innovations include...

Table of Contents:

• Definitions and Epidemiology of Constipation
• Etiology of Congenital Colorectal Disease
• Etiology of Acquired Colorectal Disease: Constipation
• Extracolonic Causes of Constipation
• Initial Evaluation of Constipation
• Constipation-Predominant Irritable Bowel Syndrome
• Methods to Measure Small-Bowel and Colonic Transit
• Anorectal Manometry and the Rectoanal Inhibitory Reflex
• Defecography: Technique, Interpretation, and Current Use
• Compliance and Manovolumetry
• Electromyography and Pudendal Nerve Terminal Motor Latency
• Dynamic Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Nuclear Imaging
• Biofeedback for Constipation
• Medical Treatment of Constipation
• Surgical Treatment of Colonic Inertia
• Botulinum Toxin and Other New Pharmacologic Approaches to Constipation
• Sacral Nerve Stimulation
• Surgical Treatment of Rectocele: Colorectal Approaches
• Surgical Treatment of Rectocele: Gynecologic Approaches
• Perineal Procedures for Rectal Prolapse
• Constipation and Rectal Prolapse
• Laparoscopic Surgery for Rectal Prolapse
• Antegrade Continent Colonic Conduit
• Surgical Treatment of Hirschsprung’s Disease
• Chagasic Megacolon
• Surgical Treatment of Puborectalis Hypertrophy.