ALLMedicine™ Constipation Center

May 5th, 2021 - To determine the molecular basis of a new monogenetic recessive disorder that results in familial autonomic ganglionopathy with diffuse autonomic failure. Methods: Two adult siblings from one family (I-4, I-5) and another subject from a second fam...

May 5th, 2021 - Defecatory disorders including obstructed defecation (OD) are currently diagnosed using specialized investigations including anorectal manometry and the balloon expulsion test. Recently, we developed a simulated stool named Fecobionics that provid...

May 4th, 2021 - To study the use of interventions and symptom relief for adult patients with incurable cancer admitted to an acute palliative care unit providing integrated oncology and palliative care services. All admissions during 1 year were assessed. The use...

May 4th, 2021 - Chronic constipation, gastroenterohepatologist`s approach.|2021|Milosavljevic T,Popovic DD,Mijac DD,Milovanovic T,Krstic S,|

May 4th, 2021 - Morvan syndrome (MoS) is a rare autoimmune syndrome associated with antibodies against two kinds of potassium channel proteins, contactin associated protein-like 2 (CASPR2) and leucine-rich glioma inactivated protein 1 (LGI1). MoS patients with on...

Nov 22nd, 2019 - Chronic constipation is a common disorder with a reported prevalence ranging from 3% to 27% in the general population. Several management strategies, including diagnostic tests, empiric treatments, and specific treatments, have been developed. Our...

Nov 16th, 2019 - Chronic constipation is very common. The most recent estimate of clinician visits attributable to constipation were from 2001 to 2004 and reported more than 8 million clinician visits in the United States, with most occurring in adult primary care...

Oct 31st, 2019 - Constipation is a symptom that affects around 11-20% of the adult population yearly. Most physicians consider infrequency of defecation as a hallmark of constipation. However, most patients view excessive straining as the biggest component of cons...

Oct 4th, 2019 - Children presenting to pediatric emergency departments (EDs) are frequently given enemas for relief of constipation symptoms; there is very little literature guiding solution selection.

Sep 10th, 2019 - Ardelyx, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARDX), a specialized biopharmaceutical company focused on developing innovative first-in-class medicines to improve treatment for people with cardiorenal diseases, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration h...

May 5th, 2021 - To determine the molecular basis of a new monogenetic recessive disorder that results in familial autonomic ganglionopathy with diffuse autonomic failure. Methods: Two adult siblings from one family (I-4, I-5) and another subject from a second fam...

May 5th, 2021 - Defecatory disorders including obstructed defecation (OD) are currently diagnosed using specialized investigations including anorectal manometry and the balloon expulsion test. Recently, we developed a simulated stool named Fecobionics that provid...

May 4th, 2021 - To study the use of interventions and symptom relief for adult patients with incurable cancer admitted to an acute palliative care unit providing integrated oncology and palliative care services. All admissions during 1 year were assessed. The use...

May 4th, 2021 - Chronic constipation, gastroenterohepatologist`s approach.|2021|Milosavljevic T,Popovic DD,Mijac DD,Milovanovic T,Krstic S,|

May 4th, 2021 - Morvan syndrome (MoS) is a rare autoimmune syndrome associated with antibodies against two kinds of potassium channel proteins, contactin associated protein-like 2 (CASPR2) and leucine-rich glioma inactivated protein 1 (LGI1). MoS patients with on...

Apr 28th, 2021 - The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued a drug safety update on the use of polyethylene glycol (PEG)-based laxatives together with starch-based thickeners. The MHRA has warned about a potentially harmful interacti...

Apr 26th, 2021 - A call for more appropriate use of a new class of drugs for the treatment of opioid-induced constipation (OIC) has been issued by researchers who found that the number of Medicare beneficiaries who use these drugs, as well as associated costs, soa...

Nov 19th, 2020 - Subcutaneously administered methylnaltrexone (MNTX) (Relistor), a peripherally acting µ-opioid receptor antagonist, relieves opioid-induced constipation (OID) in both chronic, noncancer-related illness and cancer-related illness, a new analysis co...

Oct 21st, 2020 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A multi-strain probiotics capsule effectively treated Parkinson's disease (PD)-related constipation in a short-term, single-center, randomized, controlled trial in Malaysia. "With emerging evidence of a link between gut...

Oct 21st, 2020 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A multi-strain probiotics capsule effectively treated Parkinson's disease (PD)-related constipation in a short-term, single-center, randomized, controlled trial in Malaysia. "With emerging evidence of a link between gut...