Constipation

The second edition of Constipation is a comprehensive text on the etiology, evaluation and management of chronic, intractable constipation.

Written by an international panel of authors, the book includes all the new advances developed, described and tested since the first edition, such as biofeedback, surgery for constipation, sacral nerve stimulation, the use of laparoscopy for rectal prolapse, treament and our understanding of some of the psychological problems of these patients.

The book is essential for coloproctologists, general surgeons and, with chapters on irritable bowel syndrome, botulinum toxin and other new pharmacologic approaches, will also appeal to gastroenterologists.

The only book to deal specifically with constipation for specialists Includes all the new advances developed, described and tested since the first edition (1995)

Inhalt
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.