| Theme |
Recent Advances in Gastrointestinal Functio Tests |
| Title |
Measurement of Colonic Motility |
| Author |
Daisuke Sasaki |
Health and Counceling Center, Hirosaki University |
| Author |
Ken Satou |
First Department of Internal Medicine, Hirosaki University, School of Medicine |
| Author |
Miyako Takimoto |
First Department of Internal Medicine, Hirosaki University, School of Medicine |
| [ Summary ] |
The methodologies and methodological problems associated with colonic motility are explained. To study motility in the ascending colon, the ERBI method offered rapid access to the ascending colon for pressure sensors. Next, several basic and clinical reports on colonic motilities from 1997 are reviewed. A recent noteworthy report was about ambulatory twenty four-hour colonic manometry. It revealed new physiological and pathophysiological facts about colonic motility. New approaches, using enterotachograms or electrocolonograms, to measure colonic motility are being developed with the aid of computers. The measurement of colonic motility is not useful for the accurate diagnosis of motility disorders of the colon, but it may be useful to get information about the brain-gut axis. |