Abstract:
:The techniques commonly used to evaluate the transit of contents through the gut feature some limitations for being either inaccurate, invasive, inconvenient, or potentially dangerous for the subjects. Aim of this study was to establish a safe, noninvasive and accurate technique for the measurement of segmental oroanal transit time. We localized an orally ingested magnetic marker by means of a biomagnetic instrumentation that allows us to identify in a three-dimensional pattern the position of a biomagnetic source inside the body. The biomagnetic localizations were compared with the anatomical data obtained by magnetic resonance imaging investigations. The study was performed in 12 healthy subjects, and scans were taken every hour up to the arrival of the marker into the cecum; thereafter, scans were taken every 4 hr up to the elimination of the marker. In 99% of the isofield maps obtained from each field scan, the marker was localized within the bowel walls. The mean oroanal transit time was 56 +/- 5 hr, the mouth-to-cecum transit time was 13 +/- 1.7 hr, and the total colonic transit time was 43.5 +/- 5 hr (mean +/- SEM). Segmental colon transit did not show major differences among the regions considered, although most of the time was spent in the right colon. In fact, a good correlation was found between transit time through the right colon and oroanal and total colonic transit (r = 0.77, P < 0.02, r = 0.79, P < 0.02 respectively). In conclusion, this method might be a safe alternative to the techniques presently used in the clinical setting for the measurement of intestinal transit.
journal_name
Dig Dis Scijournal_title
Digestive diseases and sciencesauthors
Basile M,Neri M,Carriero A,Casciardi S,Comani S,Del Gratta C,Di Donato L,Di Luzio S,Macri MA,Pasquarelli Adoi
10.1007/BF01296499subject
Has Abstract,Author List Incompletepub_date
1992-10-01 00:00:00pages
1537-43issue
10eissn
0163-2116issn
1573-2568journal_volume
37pub_type
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