Description
Definitions and Epidemiology of Constipation.- Etiology of Congenital Colorectal Disease.- Etiology of Acquired Colorectal Disease: Constipation.- Extracolonic Causes of Constipation.- Initial Evaluation of Constipation.- Constipation-Predominant Irritable Bowel Syndrome.- Methods to Measure Small-Bowel and Colonic Transit.- Anorectal Manometry and the Rectoanal Inhibitory Reflex.- Defecography: Technique, Interpretation, and Current Use.- Compliance and Manovolumetry.- Electromyography and Pudendal Nerve Terminal Motor Latency.- Dynamic Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Nuclear Imaging.- Biofeedback for Constipation.- Medical Treatment of Constipation.- Surgical Treatment of Colonic Inertia.- Botulinum Toxin and Other New Pharmacologic Approaches to Constipation.- Sacral Nerve Stimulation.- Surgical Treatment of Rectocele: Colorectal Approaches.- Surgical Treatment of Rectocele: Gynecologic Approaches.- Perineal Procedures for Rectal Prolapse.- Constipation and Rectal Prolapse.- Laparoscopic Surgery for Rectal Prolapse.- Antegrade Continent Colonic Conduit.- Surgical Treatment of Hirschsprung’s Disease.- Chagasic Megacolon.- Surgical Treatment of Puborectalis Hypertrophy.
