There might be a distinctive clinical phenotype of constipation with non-cardiac chest pain which responds to combination laxatives
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Investigation of non-cardiac chest pain — which oesophageal test?
Five different tests were used to evaluate oesophageal function in 22 patients who presented to a cardiac unit with acute chest pain but whose cardiological investigations were negative. Eight patients had an abnormality on oesophagoscopy, 10 had an abnormal pH monitoring study, six had a positive acid infusion test, 10 had an abnormal manometric study and six had an abnormal oseophageal transi...
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n t ro d u c t i o n: Man has been plagued by chronic c o n s t i p ation and other digestionr e l ated problems for more than 7 000 ye a rs or at least ever since we stopped feeding solely on berries, roots and grains, but turned to a wide va riety of m e at products (3). Constipation is still an important problem today, plaguing modern society more than e ver, because approx i m ately one-fif...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medicine
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0025-7974,1536-5964
DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000015884