Video Perspectives in Constipation

In this video series, Linda Nguyen, MD, clinical chief of Digestive Health Center and clinical professor of medicine at Stanford University, discussed:

• distinguishing between IBS-C, CIC and other types of constipation;
• approaching opioid-induced and -exacerbated constipation;
• new developments in IBS-C, like the approval of tenapanor (Ibsrela, Ardelyx) and utilizing the Rome criteria for diagnosis;
• recent ACG guidance on IBS-C management;
• considerations of the low FODMAP diet and the increasing recognition of avoidant restrictive food intake disorder;
• the need for better IBS diagnosis;
• how pelvic floor dysfunction can “overlap” with IBS-C, CIC and opioid-induced constipation; and
• the possibility of curing constipation caused by pelvic floor dysfunction through physical therapy.