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colonic transit studies
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what is 'colonic transit studies'?
Definition for colonic transit studies
colonic transit studies is also known as: colonic transit time, transit time through bowel
colonic transit studies is a medical procedure used for such diagnoses as: constipation, autonomic neuropathy and fecal impaction.
related diagnosis for 'colonic transit studies'
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diagnosis
constipation
difficulty having bowel movements
colonic transit studies and constipation
autonomic neuropathy
symptoms due to damage to nerves regulating body functions
colonic transit studies and autonomic neuropathy
fecal impaction
hard difficult to expel stool stuck in rectum in individual with chronic constipation
colonic transit studies and fecal impaction
acquired megacolon
abnormal dilatation of large bowel
colonic transit studies and acquired megacolon
rectocele
bulging of rectum into vagina
colonic transit studies and rectocele
anal outlet obstruction
narrowed anorectal area
colonic transit studies and anal outlet obstruction
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related procedure for 'colonic transit studies'/associated diagnoses
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Electromyogram (EMG)
colonic transit studies and Electromyogram (EMG)
Anorectal manometry
test to determine function of muscles and nerves in anus and rectum
colonic transit studies and Anorectal manometry
Colonoscopy
Colonoscopy
colonic transit studies and Colonoscopy
Complete metabolic panel
colonic transit studies and Complete metabolic panel
Defecography
colonic transit studies and Defecography
Disimpaction fecal
colonic transit studies and Disimpaction fecal
KUB
colonic transit studies and KUB
Sigmoidoscopy
Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
colonic transit studies and Sigmoidoscopy
serum electrolytes
colonic transit studies and serum electrolytes
Anoscopy
test to visualize anus and rectum
colonic transit studies and Anoscopy
Enema
colonic transit studies and Enema
Proctosigmoidoscopy
colonic transit studies and Proctosigmoidoscopy
Rectal suppositories
colonic transit studies and Rectal suppositories
Stool softeners
colonic transit studies and Stool softeners
laxatives
colonic transit studies and laxatives
Complete Blood Count
colonic transit studies and Complete Blood Count
Digital rectal exam (DRE)
colonic transit studies and Digital rectal exam (DRE)
composite autonomic severity score (CASS)
colonic transit studies and composite autonomic severity score (CASS)
Urethral catheter
colonic transit studies and Urethral catheter
Serum T4 free
colonic transit studies and Serum T4 free
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related medication for 'colonic transit studies'/associated diagnoses
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magnesium hydroxide
colonic transit studies and magnesium hydroxide
methylcellulose
colonic transit studies and methylcellulose
lactulose
colonic transit studies and lactulose
psyllium
colonic transit studies and psyllium
lubiprostone
colonic transit studies and lubiprostone
docusate
colonic transit studies and docusate
docusate(docusate sodium )
colonic transit studies and docusate(docusate sodium )
polyethylene glycol 3350(miralax , glycolax)
colonic transit studies and polyethylene glycol 3350(miralax , glycolax)
polyethylene glycol solution
colonic transit studies and polyethylene glycol solution
sodium phosphate
colonic transit studies and sodium phosphate
tegaserod(zelnorm )
colonic transit studies and tegaserod(zelnorm )
senna
colonic transit studies and senna
magnesium citrate
colonic transit studies and magnesium citrate
mineral oil
colonic transit studies and mineral oil
dietary fiber
colonic transit studies and dietary fiber
docusate sodium and casanthranol combination
colonic transit studies and docusate sodium and casanthranol combination
lactulose(enulose , others...)
colonic transit studies and lactulose(enulose , others...)
lubiprostone(amitiza )
colonic transit studies and lubiprostone(amitiza )
miralax
colonic transit studies and miralax
oil retention enema
colonic transit studies and oil retention enema
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Radioisotope determination of regional colonic transit in severe ...
To study regional colonic transit accurately the transit of a radioisotope ... method for studying gut transit times using ... Colonic transit scintigraphy. ...
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Does gender or the menstrual cycle affect colonic transit?
To clarify this issue, colonic transit studies using radiopaque markers were ... clinical setting, therefore, colonic transit studies can be performed throughout ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2916519
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Reporting simplified colonic transit studies using radionuclides ...
Reporting simplified colonic transit studies using radionuclides: clinician friendly reports. ... Measurement of colonic transit time using radionuclide ...
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The role of pelvic floor dysfunction and slow colonic transit in ...
... of this study was to examine the symptoms and colonic transit in adolescents ... Results of scintigraphic colonic transit studies were evaluated. ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15307880
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Central CRF, urocortins and stress increase colonic transit via CRF1 ...
... gastric emptying and distal colonic transit time) or maintained with food and ... related colonic response induced by i.c.v. injection of Ucn 2 in our studies. ...
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[Fiber intake and colonic transit time in functional constipated patients]
... colonic transit was ... The colonic transit can differentiate normal from constipated ... Case-Control Studies. Chronic Disease. Colon/physiopathology ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18425230?ordinalpos=15&it...
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Constipation symptoms, causes, and treatments including laxatives and ...
Read details about constipation and the different treatments available for constipation including laxatives, dietary fiber, enemas, suppositories, drugs, and surgery.
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=331&page=3
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Prognosis of constipation: clinical factors and colonic transit time
... value of solid marker transit studies in childhood constipation and soiling. ... Reproducibility of colonic transit study in patients with chronic constipation. ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1720034
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Chapter 3: Methods for Clinical Research in Constipation: Precipitating ...
No direct studies of the pattern of transit alterations in a medically ill ... Total and colonic transit was unaltered in healthy volunteers by treadmill ...
http://painconsortium.nih.gov/symptomresearch/chapter_3/sec7/cnss7pg1_1.htm
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In patients with slow transit constipation, the pattern of colonic ...
... six patients with STC (radio-opaque marker study) were subclassified according ... of generalized or left-sided patterns of colonic transit was assessed. ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18070233?ordinalpos=33&it...
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Octreotide induced prolongation of colonic transit increases faecal ...
... aims of this study were to compare colonic transit, bile acid metabolising ... intestinal transit or the colonic bacterial flora for one month before the study. ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1774470
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Chronic Constipation: Facts About Causes and Treatments
Chronic constipation is a common problem that can often be relieved by ... specific tests, including a colonic transit study, a balloon expulsion, and anal ...
http://www.webmd.com/digestive-disorders/features/chronic-co...
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, and ...
Learn about Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) causes, symptoms inlcuding diarrhea, constipation, abdominal pain, gas, and ... slow colonic transit; and ano ...
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=396&page=7
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Megacolon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Colonic marker transit studies are useful to distinguish colonic inertia from ... Patients with colonic inertia show the marker spread throughout the large ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megacolon
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Bifidobacterium animalis strain DN-173 010 shortens the colonic transit ...
METHODS: A double-blind, cross-over study was performed. ... The total and segmental colonic transit times were assessed using a pellet method. ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11876714?ordinalpos=4&ito...
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The effects of melatonin on colonic transit time in normal controls and ...
... of this study was to investigate the effects of exogenous melatonin on colonic ... METHODS: Colonic transit time was measured in 17 healthy controls using the ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18720001
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Gastrointestinal transit and prolonged ambulatory colonic motility in ...
Aim?To study colonic function over two to three days in the ambulatory, ... Patients showed no disturbance of colonic radioisotope transit. ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1891481
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Effects of prucalopride on colonic transit, anorectal function and ...
Colonic transit times and anorectal function (anal manometry, ... Cross-Over Studies. Defecation/drug effects. Defecation/physiology. Double-Blind Method ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11929394
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How well does stool form reflect colonic transit?
... assessment of segmental colonic transit. Gastroenterology. 1987 Jan;92 ... Some determinants of whole-gut transit time: a population-based study. QJM. ...
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Factors controlling colonic motility: Colonic pressures and transit ...
Laxatives and anti-diarrhoeal agents: transit studies. Proc R Soc Med. 1967 Mar;60(3):215?216. ... new method for studying gut transit times using radioopaque ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1411335
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PMID 17381397
Six weeks postoperatively, the patients underwent a colonic transit study. ... The appendicitis patients had a colonic transit time similar to that in healthy ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17381397
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NIDDK Clearinghouses Reference Collection
... text that offers chapters about each of the major colonic disorders. ... manometry, rectal biopsy, colonic transit studies, and cinedefecography. ...
http://catalog.niddk.nih.gov/resources/results.cfm?result=al...
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Constipation
Causes and treatments for constipation explained. From the National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse.
http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/constipation
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Colonic capacitance and transit in man: modulation by luminal contents ...
... ingestion on the colonic metabolism of lactulose in man (an in vivo study). J Clin Invest. ... Colonic transit scintigraphy. ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1378421
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Colonic and anorectal function in constipated patients with anorexia ...
... study was to investigate colorectal function by measuring colonic transit and ... Patients underwent colonic transit studies using a radiopaque marker technique ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9382057
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Variability of gastrointestinal transit in healthy women and men.
Total colonic transit time was equally well reflected by the scintigraphic and ... means in the two studies were almost identical, single assessments of transit ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1383315
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Increased deoxycholic acid absorption and gall stones in acromegalic ...
... studies of others,13 that slow colonic transit leads to more alkaline colonic ... studies of Marcus and Heaton show clearly that slowing colonic transit increases ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1774479
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Effect of verapamil on human intestinal transit.
... to quantitate gastric emptying, small intestinal transit, and colonic transit. In the study period of four days, verapamil did not change the frequency, ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1587197
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NIDDK Clearinghouses Reference Collection
... include the assessment of colonic transit, a definition of constipation, and ... transit study, anorectal function tests, defecography, barium enema x ray, and ...
http://catalog.niddk.nih.gov/resources/results.cfm?searchter...
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erythromycin side effects constipation
... of oral erythromycin on colonic transit in patients with idiopathic ... this study we evaluated the effects of erythromycin on colonic transit and stool ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7587829
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Evaluation and surgical treatment of severe chronic constipation.
... studies, patients were categorized as having: slow transit ... Simplified assessment of segmental colonic transit. Gastroenterology. 1987 Jan;92(1):40?47. ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1358538
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Outcome of Colectomy for Slow Transit Constipation
... manuscript as having slow colonic transit of any cause ... Colonic Transit ... colonic transit time studies to select patients with slow transit constipation ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1420916
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Review article: tegaserod.
Tegaserod has proven safe in toxicity studies. ... and colonic transit in healthy patients, and small bowel transit in patients ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11207504
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Effects of female steroid hormones on A-type K+ currents in murine colon
A recent clinical study revealed that colonic transit time is significantly ... Colonic transit time in pregnant rats was essentially identical to those of ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1779718
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Bowel habit after cholecystectomy: physiological changes and clinical ...
... study was to determine whether cholecystectomy modifies gut transit. ... Colonic transit times in patients with the postcholecystectomy diarrhea syndrome ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8780565?ordinalpos=9&itoo...
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Effects of the 5-HT3 antagonist cilansetron vs placebo on phasic ...
... to the laboratory for the colonic motility studies after fasting for at least ... Both prolonged colonic transit and firm stools are characteristic of ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2014951
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Transit through the gut measured by analysis of a single stool.
... balance studies in formula-fed patients and for assessment of colonic function. ... Bowel transit studies in the elderly: radio-opaque markers in the ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=1269990
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THE MERCK MANUAL OF GERIATRICS, Ch. 110, Constipation, Diarrhea, and ...
Delayed colonic transit, an age-related change occurring predominantly in the ... Laboratory studies can exclude suspected underlying metabolic conditions, ...
http://www.merck.com/mkgr/mmg/sec13/ch110/ch110a.jsp
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Analysis of patients with poor outcome of rectocele repair.
In 14 of 26 patients with a poor outcome, colonic transit studies were performed. ... In two patients colonic transit was normal. ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11089592
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Colonic manometry in children with chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction.
... that studies of colonic manometry are ... A new method for studying gut transit times using radioopaque markers. Gut. ... Colonic transit scintigraphy. ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1374266
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Randomized controlled trial of biofeedback, sham feedback, and standard ...
... colonic transit study and symptomatic changes and stool characteristics by ... Colonic transit improved after biofeedback or standard (P = .01) but not ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17368232
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Corticotropin-releasing factor receptors and stress-related alterations ...
Subsequent studies established that delayed emptying of the stomach is the most ... Stress, CRF1 in the brain, and colonic transit. ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1716215
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18844264 2008 10 23 2008 11 28 1365-2168 95 11 2008 Nov Importance of ...
... and rectal sensory function, evacuation proctography and colonic transit studies. ... was abnormal in nine of 14. Colonic transit was delayed in five of eight ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18844264?ordinalpos=52&it...
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Pan-colonic decrease in interstitial cells of Cajal in patients with ...
... lower in the slow transit constipation patients across all colonic regions. ... focused our studies on idiopathic slow colonic transit constipation (STC), a ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1773407
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Hysterectomy: the anorectal pitfall. A guideline for evaluation.
Colonic transit studies and dynamic rectal examination could be useful. ... Prospective studies are needed to investigate anorectal disorders after hysterectomy. ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9200299
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Serotonergic modulating drugs for functional gastrointestinal diseases
Stool consistency is related to colonic transit and the time for water ... Physiological studies in IBS are as yet few in number. ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1874383
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Systematic Review of Surgical Options for Idiopathic Megarectum and ...
... rectal evacuatory function,3,9 often with secondary delay in colonic transit.11 ... studies of colonic transit and rectal evacuation, should be performed ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1357059
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15816362 2005 04 08 2005 07 26 2006 10 30 0940-2993 56 4-5 2005 Mar Exp ...
... of gastrointestinal motor function including colonic contraction and transit. ... Further studies are warranted to determine the mechanism of protection and the ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15816362
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Tachykinin NK2 receptors and enhancement of cholinergic transmission in ...
Accordingly, in vivo studies have determined that meal transit in the rat ... MIZUTA Y., TAKAHASHI T., OWYANG C. Nitrergic regulation of colonic transit in rats. ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1572870
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Slow transit constipation: more than one disease?
In transit studies, slow transit can be the result of a right sided or global ... colonic transit but also diminishes the sensation of bloating and abdominal pain. ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1773415
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