Chronic constipation: Update on management

Umar Hayat; Mohannad Dugum; Samita Garg

doi:10.3949/ccjm.84a.15141

Chronic constipation: Update on management

Cleve Clin J Med. 2017 May;84(5):397-408. doi: 10.3949/ccjm.84a.15141.

Authors

Umar Hayat¹, Mohannad Dugum², Samita Garg^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.
² Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. mdugum.md@gmail.com.
³ Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.
⁴ Assistant Professor, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.

PMID: 28530898
DOI: 10.3949/ccjm.84a.15141

Abstract

Managing chronic constipation involves identifying and treating secondary causes, instituting lifestyle changes, prescribing pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic therapies, and, occasionally, referring for surgery. Several new drugs have been approved, and others are in the pipeline.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Chronic Disease
Constipation / diagnosis
Constipation / etiology
Constipation / therapy*
Disease Management*
Humans