Total and Segmental Colonic Transit Time and Anorectal Manometry in Children With Chronic Idiopathic Constipation

Abstract

Estimating colonic transit time is a simple and noninvasive technique for classifying patients with constipation. Colonic inertia may be a manifestation of global motility dysfunction. Children with delayed distal colonic transits are more likely to have abnormal defecation dynamics.