The Danish version of the modified Constant-Murley shoulder score: reliability, agreement, and construct validity.

Study Design: Test-retest study. Objectives To assess the reliability, agreement, and validity of the Danish version of the modified Constant-Murley score (CMS).

Background: Modified CMS guidelines were published in 2008.

Colectomy for refractory constipation.

Objective: This study evaluated the type of colectomy, postoperative complications, functional results, and satisfaction in patients with constipation refractory to conservative therapy. Further, colonic transit time (CTT), faecal load (coprostasis), and colon length (redundancies) were compared between operated and non-operated patients.

Material And Methods: Out of 281 patients, 30 women and 5 men underwent surgery.

Correlation of bowel symptoms with colonic transit, length, and faecal load in functional faecal retention.

Introduction: Abdominal pain, bloating, and defecation disturbances are common complaints in gastrointestinal functional disorders. This study explores whether bowel symptoms are correlated to colon transit time (CTT), faecal loading (coprostasis), and colon length; and whether prokinetic intervention can reduce CTT, faecal retention, and symptoms.

Methods: This observational and interventional study includes 281 patients, and 44 asymptomatic controls.

Origin of acute appendicitis: fecal retention in colonic reservoirs: a case control study.

Background: Appendicitis is encountered predominantly in Western, industrialized countries. Animal experiments and clinical studies have suggested an obstructive fecalith as a cause of acute appendicitis. It was hypothesized that patients with acute appendicitis would have a longer colonic transit time and more fecal retention reservoirs (coprostasis) than healthy control persons, thus favoring the occurrence of a fecalith in the appendix.