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Mil Med. 1993 Aug;158(8):546-8.
The constipated serviceman: prevalence among deployed U.S. troops.
Sweeney WB, Krafte-Jacobs B, Britton JW, Hansen W.
Medical Department, USS Iwo Jima LPH-2, FPO New York, NY 09561-1625.
The prevalence of constipation in deployed servicemen was determined in a sample of military personnel aboard the USS Iwo Jima LPH 2 during Operation Desert Shield. Results were obtained from a bowel function questionnaire issued to 500 deployed marines and sailors. When constipation is defined as no bowel movement for greater than 3 days, 3.9% of the Marine/sailor personnel are constipated when in their home environment as compared to 6.0% when they are aboard ship and 30.2% while in the field. Alternatively, when constipation is defined as the presence of certain anorectal complaints (hard stools, straining, painful defecation, and bleeding with defecation), the incidence is 7.2% when at home as compared to 10.4% aboard ship and 34.1% in the field. These results confirm that whether constipation is defined as infrequent bowel movements or presence of symptoms of constipation, significantly more servicemen will be constipated when in the field as compared to their home environment. Since approximately one-third of Navy/Marine Corps personnel deployed in a field environment will be constipated, preventive measures ought to be evaluated.
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Dig Dis Sci. 1993 Jan;38(1):45-50.
Relation of symptoms to impaired stomach, small bowel, and colon motility in long-standing diabetes.
Iber FL, Parveen S, Vandrunen M, Sood KB, Reza F, Serlovsky R, Reddy S.
Division of Gastroenterology, Edward Hines VA Hospital, Hines, Illinois 60141.
Stomach, intestinal, and colonic transit were measured in males with insulin-requiring diabetes of greater than 10 years' duration to compare with symptoms and to estimate the medical significance. For all diabetics only the symptom constipation correlated with the appropriate regional delayed transit. Diabetics with delayed transit in any region, however, had more overall gastrointestinal symptoms. Diabetics with delayed transit had disease of significantly longer duration than those without delay. Delayed transit was common in the diabetics selected for study with 21 of 54 stomachs, 10 of 20 small intestines, and 14 of 20 colons showing impairment. Of 35 diabetics with impaired transit at one or more locations, only seven were judged of medical importance and five of these responded to treatment. In this study, delayed transit was frequent; in the one fifth requiring management, the symptoms related closely to the region impaired.
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Dig Dis Sci. 1993 Feb;38(2):353-8.
Scintigraphic studies of rectal emptying in patients with constipation and defecatory difficulty.
Wald A, Jafri F, Rehder J, Holeva K.
Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pennsylvania.
We prospectively evaluated 38 adult patients with chronic constipation with and without defecatory difficulties using a newly described scintigraphic test to measure rectal emptying and compared them to 20 healthy controls. All patients underwent anorectal manometry, and 30 who complained of infrequent defecation underwent a colonic transit study using radiopaque markers. Control subjects promptly evacuated both 100 ml and 200 ml artificial stool in a characteristic fashion, but three evacuated none of the 100-ml volume and two had no evacuation of the 200-ml stool (inhibited controls). Constipated patients exhibited three patterns of emptying: (1) normal emptying of both volumes (47%); (2) poor emptying of both volumes or inhibited defecation (29%); and (3) normal emptying of the 200-ml but abnormal evacuation of the 100-ml volume (24%). An abnormal expulsion pattern during manometry occurred in 21% of patients and was strongly associated with the inhibited defecation pattern. However, defecation patterns could not be predicted on the basis of age, gender, symptoms, duration of complaints, colonic transit, or other rectal manometric parameters. Although rectal scintigraphy has potential advantages as a diagnostic test in terms of quantitation and decreased radiation exposure, the inability of the test to distinguish patients with slow transit constipation and defecatory complaints makes the potential utility of this test of uncertain value in clinical and investigative settings.
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