1. Improvement of Patient Satisfaction and Anorectal Manometry Parameters After Biofeedback Therapy in Patients with Different Types of Dyssynergic Defecation
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Mohsen Towliat, Mahdi Eslami, Mansour Bahardoust, Amirhossein Faghihi Kashani, Atefeh Talebi, Elaheh Alimadadi, Shahram Agah, and Abolfazl Akbari
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Adult ,Male ,Manometry ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Anal Canal ,Iran ,Biofeedback ,Balloon ,Post-intervention ,Dyssynergia ,Patient satisfaction ,Humans ,Medicine ,Defecation ,Applied Psychology ,Retrospective Studies ,Chronic constipation ,business.industry ,Anorectal manometry ,Biofeedback, Psychology ,Treatment Outcome ,Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology ,Patient Satisfaction ,Anesthesia ,Ataxia ,Female ,business ,Constipation - Abstract
Biofeedback is a well-known and effective treatment for patients with fecal evacuation disorder (FED). The main purpose of this study was to investigate the outcome and the effects of biofeedback therapy on physiological parameters as assessed by manometry in patients with FED. Data from 114 consecutive patients with FED who underwent biofeedback therapy in Sara Gastrointestinal clinic in Tehran, Iran during 2015–2018 were retrospectively reviewed and analyzed. All participants underwent a comprehensive evaluation of anorectal function that included anorectal manometry and a balloon expulsion test at the baseline and after biofeedback therapy. Maximum anal squeeze pressure and sustained anal squeeze pressure were improved up to 100% and 94.7% of normal values in the patients after biofeedback, respectively (P
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- 2020