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Cisapride stimulates small intestinal motility and relieves constipation in myelopathy due to cervical spinal
P M Hellström1, A Aly, C Johansson
1Deparment of Medicine, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
Paraplegia
|May 1, 1990
Abstract:
A patient with progressive spinal stenosis, paraplegia, chronic pain syndrome and simultaneous severe chronic constipation is described. Treatment with cisapride 10 mg, 4 times daily improved her condition, and this was associated with improved small intestinal motility during a 12-hour examination using a computer aided system.