Gastrointestinal motility can be markedly deranged in critical illness. This can have a number of important clinical sequelae—the most obvious of which is impaired delivery of enteral nutrition, which can…
This issue of Gastroenterology Clinics of North America is focused on challenges faced in everyday clinical practice. Thus rather than reviewing the evolving research literature that details the many experimental…
Gastrointestinal motility disorders affect the neuromuscular functions needed for movement of contents through the gastrointestinal tract. This definition excludes strictures and other mechanical causes for impaired passage from the concept…
Eamonn M.M. Quigley, MD, FRCP, FRCPI Guest Editor The study of gastrointestinal motility and those disorders that result from its disordered function has, for far too long, been a much…
