References
- American Gastroenterological Association. Digestive disease as a national problem. II. A white paper by the American Gastroenterological Association. Gastroenterology 1967; 53(6): 821–33
- Sandler RS, Drossman DA, Nathan HP, et al. Symptom complaints and health care seeking behavior in subjects with bowel dysfunction. Gastroenterology 1984; 87(2): 314–8
- Schuster MM. The irritable bowel syndrome. In: Sleisenger MH, Fordtran JS, eds. Gastrointestinal disease: pathophysiology, diagnosis, management. 5th ed. Philadelphia: Saunders, 1993: 917–33
- Drossman DA. Irritable bowel syndrome. Gastroenterologist 1994; 2(4): 315–26
- Talley NJ, Zinsmeister AR, Van Dyke C, et al. Epidemiology of colonic symptoms and the irritable bowel syndrome. Gastroenterology 1991; 101(4): 927–34
- Whitehead WE, Winget C, Fedoravicius AS, et al. Learned illness behavior in patients with irritable bowel syndrome and peptic ulcer. Dig Dis Sci 1982; 27(3): 202–8
- Drossman DA, Leserman J, Nachman G, et al. Sexual and physical abuse in women with functional or organic gastrointestinal disorders. Ann Intern Med 1990; 113(11): 828–33
- Sullivan MA, Cohen S, Snape WJ Jr. Colonic myoelectrical activity in irritablebowel syndrome: effect of eating and anticholinergics. N Engl J Med 1978; 298(16): 878–83
- Harvey RF, Read AE. Effect of cholecystokinin on colonic motility and symptoms in patients with the irritable-bowel syndrome. Lancet 1973; 1(793): 1–3
- Camilleri M, Saslow SB, Bharucha AE. Gastrointestinal sensation: mechanisms and relation to functional gastrointestinal disorders. Gastroenterol Clin North Am 1996; 25(1): 247–58
- Ritchie J. Pain from distension of the pelvic colon by inflating a balloon in the irritable colon syndrome. Gut 1973; 14(2): 125–32
- Richter JE, Barish CF, Castell DO. Abnormal sensory perception in patients with esophageal chest pain. Gastroenterology 1986; 91(4): 845–52
- Moriarty KJ, Dawson AM. Functional abdominal pain: further evidence that whole gut is affected. Br Med J (Clin Res Ed) 1982; 284(6330): 1670–2
- Goyal RK, Hirano I. The enteric nervous system. N Engl J Med 1996; 334(17): 1106–15
- Thompson WG. A strategy for management of the irritable bowel. Am J Gastroenterol 1986; 81(2): 95–100
- Thompson WG, Dotevall G, Drossman DA, et al. The irritable bowel syndrome: guidelines for the diagnosis. Gastroenterology International 1989; 2: 92–5
- Owens DM, Nelson DK, Talley NJ. The irritable bowel syndrome: long-term prognosis and the physician-patient interaction. Ann Intern Med 1995; 122(2): 107–12
- Bennett WG, Cerda JJ. Dietary fiber: fact and fiction. Dig Dis 1996; 14(1): 43–58
- Klein KB. Controlled treatment trials in the irritable bowel syndrome: a critique. Gastroenterology 1988; 95(1): 232–41
- Mertz H, Naliboff B, Munakata J, et al. Altered rectal perception is a biological marker of patients with irritable bowel syndrome. Gastroenterology 1995; 109(1): 40–52
- Dapoigny M, Abitbol JL, Meric G, et al. Fedotazine in irritable bowel syndrome: results of a 6 week placebo-controlled multicenter therapeutic trial. Gastroenterology 1995; 108: A588