Ultrasonographic Assessment of Stool Distribution in Patients with Post-infectious IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) and Patients without Post-infectious IBS(Symposim/Brain-Gut Interactions and Gut Inflammation)

Abstract

In previous studies, we measured the diameter of five sections of the colon using ultrasonography for the assessment of stool distribution in the colon. We investigated post-infectious irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), which is the best model case for showing the relationship between the pathogenesis of IBS and bowel infections. We assessed the stool distribution in the colon in patients with post-infectious IBS and compared the distribution pattern of the stool in without post-infectious IBS patients with these of the post-infectious IBS patients. In this study, the post-infectious IBS patients showed the right side dominant type of stool distribution in the colon more frequently than the patients without post-infectious IBS. This result suggests that the patients with post-infectious IBS have more severe diarrhea than the patients without post-infectious IBS.