Volume 7, Issue 1 (5-1993)
Med J Islam Repub Iran 1993 |
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From the Department of Medicine, Ghaem Hospital, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad. Islamic Republic of Iran.
Abstract: (3728 Views)
Five warfare spinal cord injured patients with intractable constipation are
described. Treatment with cisapride (4 x 10 mg daily) was undertaken. The agent
cisapride significantly reduced the oral-anal transit time from 25.2 days to 14.4 days.
It also improved other subjective complaints of these patients markedly. No side
effects were seen during the trial.
Type of Study: case report |
Subject:
Internal Medicine
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