ENDDSCOPIC METHOD OF MEASUREMENT OF THE COLONIC INTRALUMINAL PRESSURE LOADED BY THE BALLOON (PRELIMINARY REPORT)

Abstract

As one of the factors in abdominal pain of the irritable colon sydrome, our attention was directed to the storage of feces. For the purpose of investigating the relationship between abdominal pain of the irritable colon sydrome and the storage of faces, the following method was divised : a balloon was positioned at the sigmoid-descending colon and was inflated. Then, the change of the colonic motility was measured at various portions of proxymal colon. By this method the storage of feces in the sigmoid-descending colon simulating the motility of the colon was recorded.