Constipation : etiology, evaluation and management

Foreword / by David C.C. Bartolo -- Definitions and epidemiology of constipation / John F. Johanson -- Etiology of congenital colorectal disease / Massarat Zutshi and Tracy L. Hull -- Etiology of acquired colorectal disease: constipation / Peter J. Deveaux and Susan Galandiuk -- Extracolonic causes of constipation / Noel R. Fajardo and Lawrence A. Szarka -- Initial evaluation of constipation / J. Marcio N. Jorge -- Constipation-predominant irritable bowel syndrome / Eli D. Ehrenpreis -- Methods to measure small-bowel and colonic transit / Hack Jae Kim and Michael Camilleri -- Anorectal manometry and the rectoanal inhibitory reflex / Johann Pfeifer and Lucia Oliveira -- Defecography: technique, interpretation, and current use / Arden M. Morris and Susan C. Parker -- Compliance and manovolumetry / Olof J. Hallböök and Rune I. Sjödahl -- Electromyography and pudendal nerve terminal motor latency / Anders F. Mellgren, Jan Zetterström, and Bengt Yngve Nilsson -- Dynamic magnetic resonance imaging and nuclear imaging / Adil E. Bharucha, Joel G. Fletcher, and John H. Pemberton -- Biofeedback for constipation / Dawn E. Vickers -- Medical treatment of constipation / Raymond B. Sandler, Benjamin Person, and Ramu Raju -- Surgical treatment of colonic inertia / Shing W. Wong and David Z. Lubowski -- Botulinum toxin and other new pharmacologic approaches to constipation / Thanesan Ramalingam and Neil J. Mortensen -- Sacral nerve stimulation / Ezio Ganio, Luc Alberto Realis, Giuseppe Clerico, and Mario Trompetto -- Surgical treatment of rectocele: colorectal approaches / Guillermo O. Rosato and Carlos M. Lumi -- Surgical treatment of rectocele: gynecologic approaches / G. Willy Davila -- Perineal procedures for rectal prolapse / Richard E. Karulf and Karim Alavi -- Constipation and rectal prolapse / Michael R.B. Keighley -- Laparoscopic surgery for rectal prolapse / Ara Darzi and Yaron Munz -- Antegrade continent colonic conduit / Marc A. Gladman, S. Mark Scott, and Norman S. Williams ; Surgical treatment of Hirschsprung's disease / Alberto Peña and Marc A. Levitt -- Chagasic megacolon / Hélio Moreira, Joffre M. de Rezende, Hélio Moreira Jr., and José Paulo T. Moreira -- Surgical treatment of puborectalis hypertrophy / De-hong Yu and Hei-ying Jin.