This manuscript summarizes consensus reached by the International Anorectal Physiology Working Group (IAPWG) for the performance, terminology used, and interpretation of anorectal function testing including anorectal manometry (focused on high-resolution manometry), the rectal sensory test, and the balloon expulsion test. Based on these measurements, a classification system for disorders of anorectal function is proposed. Aim to provide information about methods of diagnosis and new classification of functional anorectal disorders to a wide range of specialists general practitioners, therapists, gastroenterologists, coloproctologists all who face the manifestations of these diseases in everyday practice and determine the diagnostic and therapeutic algorithm.
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December 2010
Aim: Hirschsprung's disease first diagnosed in adulthood is symptomatic from early childhood in most cases. However, the condition is frequently masked when constipation is managed effectively by enemas and aperients. One third of the patients will experience progressive symptoms or complications, requiring urgent surgical intervention.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHirschsprung's disease is the malformation of the hindgut characterised by the absence of intramural ganglion cells in the submucosal and myenteric plexuses and manifested by megacolon. Congenital character of this disease stipulates its belonging in general to the scope of activity of the pediatric clinics. Thanks to the progress of the pediatricians problems of diagnosis and treatment of Hirschsprung's disease have been successfully resolved.
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