Relationship of small bowel motility to ileoanal reservoir function.

Relationship of small bowel motility to ileoanal reservoir function.

Some patients with an ileoanal reservoir have a high defecation frequency, despite a good anatomical result and the absence of pouchitis. This study aimed to determine whether variation in function is related to a difference in small bowel motility proximal to the reservoir and if small bowel motility is propagated into the reservoir. Ambulatory small bowel and reservoir motility was studied fo...

Imaging approach to measuring small bowel motility.

THE ARTICLE BY CAROLINA MALAGELADA and colleagues in Barcelona entitled “Classification of functional bowel disorders by objective physiological criteria based on endoluminal image analysis” represents an important advance in the measurement of small intestinal motor functions (5). This novel approach involves novel imaging, combinations of physics and mathematics, as well as gastrointestinal p...

Motility Disorders of the Small Bowel

[Intestinal motility after massive small bowel resection].

To evaluate intestinal motility after 80% massive distal small bowel resection (MSBR), we continuously monitored interdigestive and postprandial bowel motility using bipolar electrodes and/or contractile strain gage force transducers in conscious beagle dogs before, and at 0-4 weeks and 8-13 months after the surgery. Fasting duodenal migrating myoelectric (or motor) complexes (MMCs) occurred at...

Determinants of ileoanal pouch function.