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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Eiman Ghaffarpasand, M.D. [2]
Overview
Constipation may be classified according to etiology into five subtypes Lesions of gut, Neurologic, Metabolic, Endocrine, and Psychiatric.
Classification
Constipation may be classified according to etiology into five subtypes:[1]
- Lesions of gut
- Neurologic
- Metabolic
- Endocrine
- Psychiatric
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| Neurologic | Metabolic | Endocrine | Gut lesions | Psychiatric | Drugs | Idiopathic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Obstruction | Aganglionosis | Idiopathic megacolon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hirschprung disease | Chagas disease | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| •Multiple sclerosis • Parkinson's disease • Spinal cord injury | •Hypercalcemia • Hypomagnesemia • Porphyria • Hypokalemia | • Hypothyroidism • Diabetes mellitus • Panhypopituitarism | • Depression • Eating disorder | • Analgesics • Anticholinergics • Cation-containing agents • Neuron targeting agents | • Normal colonic transit • Slow colonic transit • Dyssynergic defecation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||