Affiliation:
1. Gomel State Medical University
Abstract
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.
Publisher
Gomel State Medical University
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