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Cassia alata Linn. is a medical plant. Its leaves have been claimed to be effective as a laxative. The studies done so far have shown no toxicity as a result of consuming Cassia alata Linn. leaves. The plant has been found to contain anthraquinones, presumed to be the active ingredient causing the laxative effect. The objective of the study was to test efficacy of Cassia alata Linn. leaves for treatment of constipation compared with a placebo and mist. alba in a multicenter randomized controlled trial carried out in one provincial and 5 community hospitals. Eighty adult patients admitted to 5 community hospitals and one provincial hospital with at least 72 hours of constipation were included in the study. Twenty-eight patients were in the placebo group, 28 in the mist. alba group, and 24 in Cassia alata Linn. group. Each patient was given 120 ml of fluid with caramel color, mist. alba, or Cassia alata Linn. infusion at bed time. Evaluation was performed after 24 hours whether the patient defecated or not. The characteristics of the patients among the three groups were not different. Eighteen per cent of patients in the placebo group passed stools within 24 hours, whereas, 86 and 83 per cent of patients in mist. alba and Cassia alata Linn. groups respectively, passed stools. The differences observed between placebo and mist. alba, placebo and Cassia alata Linn. were statistically highly significant, P less than 0.001 and clinically important. Minimal self-limited side effects, i.e., nausea, dyspepsia, abdominal pain and diarrhea were noted in 16-25 per cent of the patients.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Randomized controlled trial of Cassia alata Linn. for constipation. 220 70

The presently available methods of study of small bowel motility in humans include manometry (or electromyography) which records the temporospatial organization of bowel contractions and determination of intestinal transit time. Investigation of subjects with the irritable bowel syndrome has shown that the small intestine has its part in the motor disturbances. The characteristics of normal motility of the small intestine are well known: the migrating motor complex (MMC) develops during the interdigestive period, typical contractions are seen during phases 2 and 3 of the MMC, the nature and the duration of the motor response to alimentation have been described. In patients with IBS, the production of the MMC is irregular during the day hours; this is most likely due to environmental solicitations and it is recognized that intensive aliess can cause transient interruption of the development of cycles. On the other hand, the MMC develops normally during sleeping hours. Contraction derangements such as non propulsed repeated contractions in the proximal intestine and contractions propulsed too frequently in the small intestine may be found during phase 2. Some of the abnormal contractions coincide with abdominal pain. After meals, the duration of interruption of the MMC is shorter than in the normal subject. Transit time is shortened in patients with diarrhea, lengthened in patients with constipation. Patients with IBS respond excessively to certain stimuli: for instance, the motor response to cholecystokinin is increased compared to the normal subject. Intake of fatty ingesta is followed by the same type of reaction: pain is often associated with abnormal contractions.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:[Small bowel motility in the irritable bowel syndrome]. 221 Jan 78

In the adult, the irritable bowel syndrome is characterized by intestinal transit disorders associated or not with chronic abdominal pain. Two different forms can be seen: in one, pain and constipation are predominant, while in the other, pain and diarrhea alternate. The second form is encountered with predilection in the child. Various terms can be used to name the syndrome including colitis, non specific or benign colitis, irritable bowel syndrome in the child, infantile diarrhea, and others, all of which attests to our ignorance of the pathophysiology of this disorder. This syndrome is by far the most frequent cause of chronic or recurrent diarrhea in the child. Before the age of 3 or 4 years, the principal syndrome is diarrhea, which usually appears before the age of 6 months. Onset is generally brutal, as in acute enteritis or an extradigestive infection (ENT...) but persists, or else, more often, the syndrome appears insidiously over several days. The child has soft or liquid stools of fetid odor in most cases, very rarely sourish, inhomogeneous and in which intact aliments can be found. Stools are often associated with mucous discharge, rarely with blood, and do not contain any pus. Stools are not fatty but occasionally they are sticky and adhere to the pot. During the day, stools change from well formed in the morning to soft in the evening. Their frequency varies from one day to another as well as during a given 24 hour period, ranging from one or two to 10 per day.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:[Irritable bowel syndrome in children]. 221 Jan 87

Future treatments of functional intestinal disorders (FID) are essentially dependent on the possible pathophysiologic hypotheses. Schematically, symptoms experienced by patients with FID can be attributed to intestinal (small or large intestine) motor disturbances or to visceral sensitivity derangement, which, in turn, may be primary or secondary to an anomalous response to alimentation, liberation of hormones or neuromediators, or to a "stress" situation. New therapeutic agents can be directed against the symptoms experienced by patients (? action on pain or intestinal transit disorders) or against the initial pathophysiologic mechanisms. In the treatment of functional diarrhea, several substances have been proposed recently. Encephalines are peptides with extremely short duration of action which are degraded by two membranous enzymes, encephalinase and carboxypeptidase. Recently, it has been shown that acetorphan, an inhibitor of encephalinase, is efficacious in acute diarrhea. Alpha-2-antagonists are substances which are capable of slowing intestinal transit time and increasing intestinal absorption. Their antidiarrheic action is moderate, and they do not act on abdominal pain. Molecules that do not traverse the neuromeningeal barrier but that act selectively on the digestive tract and are better tolerated are expected. In patients complaining of severe idiopathic constipation substances capable of stimulating colonic motility are useful: substance P or neurotensin analogues might prove interesting. Antagonists of opium receptors such as Naloxone have proved efficacious in the treatment of certain cases of chronic idiopathic intestinal pseudo-obstructions or severe constipation. The development of orally active substances or with hepatic elimination are a prerequisite. Therapy based on well characterized pathophysiologic abnormalities would be welcome.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:[Therapeutic perspectives in the irritable bowel syndrome]. 221 Jan 91

Primary adenocarcinoma of the appendix is an uncommon disease frequently diagnosed surgery. It has an occurrence between 0.01 and 0.11% of all appendectomized patients, and it is more often found in patients older than fifty years. Symptoms are usually similar to those seen in acute appendicitis. Some authors consider the mucocele of the appendix a primary carcinoma as it is related with obstruction of the appendix lumen followed by a cystic dilatation with mucosal changes, mucus hypersecretion and extension outside of the appendix. We present one case with abdominal pain, constipation, weight loss of 26 kg, and a mass localized in the right lower quadrant. An exploratory surgery showed a partially retroperitoneal mass of 15 by 20 cm, irregular, cystic, with mucus content and the appendix included in it. The mass was removed and appendectomy was performed. Postoperatively the patient did well. The final pathologic report was a cystadenocarcinoma of the appendix.
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PMID:[Cystadenocarcinoma of the appendix. Report of a case]. 226 47

Defecography, pelvic floor electromyography, and segmental colonic transit times were performed in 74 patients with functional constipation. Signs of functional outlet obstruction occurred in 74 percent. Transit times were normal in 33 percent. Measurement of colonic transit time in patients with disordered evacuation studies is useless from a clinical point of view, because abnormal segmental transit time is the result of outlet obstruction in most cases and will return to normal after adequate treatment. Only when evacuation studies are normal, or have become normal after treatment and constipation persists, are segmental transit studies indicated because they may demonstrate primary slow transit constipation. Primary slow transit constipation probably is caused by impaired motility of the whole gastrointestinal tract. As small-bowel transit time increases, defecation frequency decreases, laxatives are taken again, and abdominal pain persists. Surgery should be performed with restraint.
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PMID:Application of the colorectal laboratory in diagnosis and treatment of functional constipation. 229 75

The authors describe one case of rectal stenosis complicating chronic salpingitis in a patient carrying an intrauterine device. This observation is peculiar in that the inflammatory fibrous reaction is very intense, spreading all over the pelvis and forming a pseudotumoral mass sheathing the rectum. The clinical signs were mainly digestive, including a rectal syndrome: cramplike pelvic pain before defecation, tenesmus, constipation, abdominal pain and induration of the anterior aspect of the rectum observed during the clinical examination. Radiological examinations (barium enema, ultrasound, CT) show a tissue mass within the pelvis, with considerable thickening of the rectal wall. Ultrasound-guided biopsy in the pelvis yielded only nonspecific inflammatory signs with dominant fibrosis. The diagnosis of rectal stenosis caused by chronic salpingitis complicating the presence of an IUD was made only during surgery.
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PMID:[Rectal stenosis. A rare complication of chronic salpingitis caused by an intrauterine device]. 231 25

Continuous 72-h recordings of duodenojejunal contractile activity were obtained from 20 freely ambulant subjects; pressure was detected by two strain-gauge sensors incorporated in a transnasal catheter attached to an encoder and a miniature tape recorder. The subjects were 12 patients with irritable bowel syndrome, 6 of whom were constipation predominant and 6 of whom were diarrhea predominant, and 8 healthy controls. The procedure was well tolerated by all subjects and did not interfere with sleep or normal activity. In all subjects, the diurnal migrating motor complex cycle was characterized by a brief phase 1 and a prolonged phase 2; this was reversed during sleep when phase 2 was virtually absent. All subjects showed a circadian variation in migrating motor complex propagation velocity, and there was no difference in the patterns of motor activity during sleep between any of the groups. During the day, the duration of postprandial motor activity was shorter in irritable bowel syndrome patients than in controls, and diurnal migrating motor complex intervals were shorter in diarrhea-predominant than in constipation-predominant irritable bowel syndrome. In 11 of 12 inflammatory bowel syndrome patients, episodes of clustered contractions recurring at 0.9-min intervals were noted; these episodes had a mean duration of 46 min and were often associated with transient abdominal pain and discomfort. In both groups of irritable bowel syndrome patients, defecation was significantly (p less than 0.01) prolonged with a greater number of voluntary abdominal contractions (p less than 0.01) than in controls. Prolonged ambulant monitoring of proximal bowel motor activity in subjects who are free to move, eat, and sleep as they choose has, for the first time, clearly defined the striking difference in motility between the sleeping and waking state and shown that abnormalities associated with irritable bowel syndrome are confined to the latter.
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PMID:Prolonged ambulant recordings of small bowel motility demonstrate abnormalities in the irritable bowel syndrome. 232 14

Cases of endometriosis of the colon were examined in a retrospective fashion to illustrate the problems in diagnosis and management of this disease entity. Nine patients were identified from 1956 to 1988; their average age was 41 years. Common presenting symptoms were abdominal pain, diarrhea, constipation, tenesmus, small caliber stools, abdominal distention, and blood per rectum. Bowel symptoms were cyclic in four of the nine patients, and seven had a history of gynecologic complaints. Barium enema was performed in six patients and endoscopy in five patients. All cases involved the sigmoid or rectosigmoid colon. In no case was the diagnosis established endoscopically. Surgical procedures included resection with primary anastomosis (6 patients), and resection with sigmoid endcolostomy and Hartmann's pouch (3 patients). In only one case was full-thickness colonic wall involvement noted. One patient had an adenocarcinoma of the colon adjacent to the area of endometriosis. Our data indicate that the diagnosis of endometriosis of the colon should be considered in women with colonic symptoms, especially with an associated history of dysmenorrhea or cyclic changes in bowel habits. Surgical resection offers the best chance for relief of symptoms.
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PMID:Endometriosis of the colon. Its diagnosis and management. 233 65

Many women report that bowel symptoms are associated with menstruation, but neither the prevalence of these complaints nor their physiological basis is known. This study aimed to estimate prevalence, to determine whether patients with irritable bowel syndrome are more likely to make such complaints, and to determine whether bowel complaints during menstruation are attributable to psychological traits such as increased somatization. To estimate prevalence, 369 clients of Planned Parenthood of Maryland were asked whether gas, diarrhea, or constipation occurred during menstruation. These subjects were compared with women referred to a gastroenterology clinic and found to have irritable bowel syndrome or functional bowel disorder (abdominal pain plus altered bowel habits but not satisfying restrictive criteria for irritable bowel syndrome). Thirty-four percent of 233 Planned Parenthood clients who denied symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome or functional bowel disorder reported that menstruation was associated with one or more bowel symptoms. Gastroenterology clinic patients with irritable bowel syndrome were significantly more likely to experience exacerbations of each of these bowel symptoms, but especially increased bowel gas. Self-reports of bowel symptoms during menstruation were not associated with psychological traits or with menses-related changes in affect.
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PMID:Evidence for exacerbation of irritable bowel syndrome during menses. 233 90


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