Purpose. The efficacy, safety, pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, drug–drug interactions, and administration of alvimopan for postoperative ileus are reviewed. Summary. Alvimopan is a selective µ ...

Recent studies have reported beneficial effects from intravenous neostigmine as treatment of acute colonic ileus. If pharmacologic therapy fails, colonoscopic decompression should be performed.

Whereas electromyography and muscle biopsy are often used in differential diagnosis, the simpler bedside technics of muscle percussion and neostigmine-induced fasciculation are frequently neglected.

We previously identified a CF modifier locus mapped to the proximal region of mouse chromosome 7 that modulated the generally fatal intestinal disease in homozygous mutant mice 6. In this report ...

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