… The physiology and pathophysiology of small bowel motility are reviewed with particular
focus on the motility patterns and periods that are detected by intraluminal manometry. Motility …

… The symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome are pain, bloating, and an altered bowel habit.
Putative mechanisms include visceral hypersensitivity, altered motility, abnormal transit of stool …

… esophageal motility function in patients with IBS compared to organic diseases (SLE and SSc).
… have pathologic esophageal motility patterns which are comparable to organic disorders. …

… pathognomic abnormalities differentiating normal from organic disease states (let alone
functional disorders). The exception to this is small bowel manometry in chronic intestinal pseudo…

… Kruis W, Thieme CH, Weirzierl M: A diagnostic score for the irritable bowel syndrome: Its
value in the exclusion of organic disease. Gastroenterology 87:1-7, 1984 7. Drossman DA: …

… common symptoms in organic gastrointestinal diseases, yet … in inflammatory bowel disease
(IBD) and biliary diseases. This … because of functional and organic diseases. On the basis of …

… Diagnostic measures in patients with severe constipation aim to exclude obstruction
caused by organic disease and to differentiate between different forms of constipation, ie slow …

… Pediatric intestinal motility disorders require careful and meticulous diagnostic measures
to rule out significant underlying organic disease. There have been numerous advances in …

… referred had no organic disease. The commoner organic diseases are shown in table I. 71
additional diagnostic categories accounted for 229 patients; each of these diseases was seen …

… organic disease and in 108 patients irritable bowel syndrome was diagnosed without any
recognizable organic disease. … for the diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome was 99%, and at a …