Children with chronic intractable constipation show a similar impaired postprandial colonic response to that seen in adults with slow-transit constipation. Children may have attenuated extrinsic parasympathetic inputs to the colon associated with an increased incidence of spontaneous long-single motor patterns.

HBPM in the diagnostic mode almost doubled the number of patients with full adherence to the measurement schedule and eliminated the number of patients who were reclassified in a different BP category.

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