Erratum: A short telephone-call reminder improves bowel preparation, quality indicators and patient satisfaction with first colonoscopy.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1055/s-0043-117954.].

A short telephone-call reminder improves bowel preparation, quality indicators and patient satisfaction with first colonoscopy.

Background And Study Aims:  Addition of a reminder program to conventional indications improves colonoscopy. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a short telephone call reminder (STCR) on a patient's first colonoscopy.

Patients And Methods:  One day before colonoscopy, we made a STCR of < 10 minutes to 141 randomly selected patients of 258 recruited.

Rectal tone and compliance affected in patients with fecal incontinence after fistulotomy.

Aim: To investigate the anal sphincter and rectal factors that may be involved in fecal incontinence that develops following fistulotomy (FIAF).

Methods: Eleven patients with FIAF were compared with 11 patients with idiopathic fecal incontinence and with 11 asymptomatic healthy subjects (HS). All of the study participants underwent anorectal manometry and a barostat study (rectal sensitivity, tone, compliance and capacity).

Neurogenic bowel dysfunction in patients with spinal cord injury, myelomeningocele, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease.

Exciting new features have been described concerning neurogenic bowel dysfunction, including interactions between the central nervous system, the enteric nervous system, axonal injury, neuronal loss, neurotransmission of noxious and non-noxious stimuli, and the fields of gastroenterology and neurology. Patients with spinal cord injury, myelomeningocele, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease present with serious upper and lower bowel dysfunctions characterized by constipation, incontinence, gastrointestinal motor dysfunction and altered visceral sensitivity. Spinal cord injury is associated with severe autonomic dysfunction, and bowel dysfunction is a major physical and psychological burden for these patients.

Endoscopic and symptoms analysis in Mexican patients with irritable Bowel syndrome, dyspepsia, and gastroesophageal reflux disease.

The aim of this study was to analyze the data of endoscopy and symptoms in 118 Mexican patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), dyspepsia, non-erosive reflux disease (NERD) and erosive esophagitis (EE). IBS criteria were fulfilling for dyspepsia patients in 47%, for NERD in 48%, and for EE patients in 48% of cases. Esophagitis was present in 42% of patients with IBS and in 45% of patients with dyspepsia.

Irritable bowel syndrome: an international study of symptoms in eight countries.

Objectives: This report is a preliminary comparative study of irritable bowel syndrome symptoms in eight countries, USA, Mexico, Canada, England, Italy, Israel, India, and China. We also assessed global symptom patterns and correlations and relationships to several psychosocial variables.

Methods: Two hundred and thirty-nine participants completed a bowel symptom scale composed of four symptoms, abdominal pain or discomfort, bloating, diarrhea, and constipation as well as two psychosocial questionnaires, quality of relationship and attribution of symptoms to physical or emotional factors.

Biofeedback treatment of fecal incontinence incorporating a mental variable without instrumentation: a prospective pilot study in Hispanic population.

Unlabelled: The long-established approaches utilized to treat fecal incontinence always require instrumentation with some type of electronic equipment. This equipment is not always available in every institutions. In addition, no studied protocol principally used as coordination, sensory, or strength training has reached the level of gold standard.

An international study of irritable bowel syndrome: family relationships and mind-body attributions.

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a functional gastrointestinal illness, characterized by potentially debilitating symptoms without pathologic findings, often associated with psychological conditions. Little is known about the psychosocial aspects of this condition on an international scale. A total of 239 patients in eight countries were given a series of psychological and medical questionnaires, including IBS activity, relationships with significant others, beliefs regarding the etiology of symptoms, and assessment of quality of life.

Reference values for stationary and 24-hour ambulatory esophageal manometry and pH data in Hispanic population.

Background: It has not yet been determined whether values obtained with stationary esophageal motility test are similar to those obtained with the 24-h procedure. Furthermore, there are no normal values established for esophageal pH and motility parameters in a Hispanic population.

Methods: Reflux symptoms, endoscopy, Helicobacter pylori, stationary esophageal manometry, and combined 24-h pH-manometry were evaluated in 12 healthy volunteers.

Helicobacter pylori infection and hiatal hernia do not affect acid reflux and esophageal motility in patients with gastro-esophageal reflux.

Background: The association of H. pylori and hiatal hernia in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease, in terms of acidity and esophageal motility, is not well defined. The purpose of this work was to assess whether, in patients with gastroesophageal reflux, the presence of H.