Sentence examples for colonic emptying from inspiring English sources

The impaired intestinal and colonic emptying was diagnosed in 4 patients of group I and in 17 patients of group II (p = 0.07).

Conclusions: Renzapride causes clinically significant dose-related acceleration of CT, particularly ascending colonic emptying; this acceleration of transit is associated with improvement of bowel function in female C-IBS patients.

Different types of ileus were observed: impaired intestinal and colonic emptying and a combined form.

In a clinical trial Phase IIa, naronapride accelerated the stool consistency and colonic transit and promoted colonic emptying in healthy volunteers.

This dose-dependent effect, characterized by a significant increase in stool frequency and decrease in stool consistency with a higher percentage of loose/watery stools, is accompanied by a significant shortening of mean colonic transit time and proximal colonic emptying with prucalopride in doses ranging from 0.5 4 mg once daily (Bouras et al. 1999; Poen et al. 1999).

In contrast, a physiologic study including 40 patients with chronic functional constipation and no evidence of a rectal evacuation disorder not only demonstrated that prucalopride in a dose of 2 and 4 mg accelerates overall colonic transit and ascending colonic emptying, but also gastric emptying and small bowel transit; the effect appeared to be dose dependent (Bouras et al. 2001).

The primary endpoint was the effect on ascending colon emptying and colonic transit as determined by scintigraphy.

PRU tended to accelerate overall colonic transit with significantly faster overall colonic transit and ascending colon emptying with the 4-mg dose.

It enhances colonic propulsion and accelerates right colon emptying (Emmanuel et al. 1998; Bouras et al. 2001).

Patients with chronic constipation associated with a disordered transit through the upper gut may also benefit from prucalopride as it accelerates not only total colonic transit and ascending colon emptying but also gastric emptying and small bowel transit.

Impaired taste sensation, problems with swallowing, slower gastric emptying and intestinal and colonic transit, and altered levels of satiety hormones have been reported in the elderly [ 6- 10].