Open AccessFUNCTIONAL CONSTIPATION (Message 1: epidemiology and diagnosis) (literature review)
Author(s) -
Э. Н. Платошкин,
С. А. Шут
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
problemy zdorovʹâ i èkologii
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2708-6011
pISSN - 2220-0967
DOI - 10.51523/2708-6011.2013-10-4-11
Subject(s) - constipation , medicine , irritable bowel syndrome , etiology , differential diagnosis , functional constipation , epidemiology , intensive care medicine , pathology
Chronic constipation is a very common disease. Functional constipation, as well as irritable bowel syndrome with constipation, detection of which is based on the interpretation of symptoms, is prone to cover the geterogenic cohort of patients with various etiology of these symptoms. The differential diagnosis of these two diseases is not always possible in medical practice. The specificity of diagnostic instrumental methods available in specialized centers and laboratories stays unclear. The study of the disorder in the line «cerebrum - intestines» can be very perspective in the pathogenesis of functional constipation and syndrome of irritated bowel with constipation.