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Manometric evaluation of children with chronic constipation using a suction-stimulating electrode
Manometric evaluation of children with chronic constipation using a suction-stimulating electrode
- Source :
- European journal of pediatric surgery : official journal of Austrian Association of Pediatric Surgery ... [et al] = Zeitschrift fur Kinderchirurgie. 2(5)
- Publication Year :
- 1992
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Abstract
- Thirteen children with chronic constipation (8 males and 5 females, aged 1 month to 9 years) were evaluated manometrically. A suction-stimulating electrode was used to induce the rectoanal reflex electrically so as to examine the threshold voltage and latency of this reflex. The rectoanal reflex was induced in all patients by balloon dilatation of the rectum. However, electrical stimulation of the rectal mucosa triggered a reflex in only nine of them and the threshold voltage and latency was 22.2 +/- 3.6 volts (mean +/- SD, n = 9) and 2.04 +/- 0.38 seconds (n = 9), respectively. Hence, it is suggested that a suction-stimulating electrode is a useful supportive tool in manometric anorectal studies, and that disturbances in the rectal nervous system might be one of the causative factors in chronic constipation in childhood.
- Subjects :
- Nervous system
Suction (medicine)
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Constipation
Manometry
Rectum
Anal Canal
Stimulation
Gastroenterology
Rectal mucosa
Internal medicine
Reflex
medicine
Humans
Child
Chronic constipation
business.industry
Infant
Electric Stimulation
medicine.anatomical_structure
Child, Preschool
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Chronic Disease
Surgery
Female
medicine.symptom
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 09397248
- Volume :
- 2
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- European journal of pediatric surgery : official journal of Austrian Association of Pediatric Surgery ... [et al] = Zeitschrift fur Kinderchirurgie
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....29699506f093483d02070f9395b1cf1c