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Autism affects half a million people in the UK. Men are affected more than women. People with autism have said that the world, to them, is a mass of people, places and events which they struggle t...
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Anorectal function is not always normal after surgery in Hirschsprung's disease
Arshad and colleagues highlight that, although rare, late presenting Hirschsprung’s disease in children can result in serious morbidity.1 However, their statement that most patients with...
Many patients have an identifiable genetic cause of Hirschsprung's disease
As Arshad and colleagues point out, some patients with Hirschsprung’s disease will have a family history.1 Many patients will also have an identifiable genetic cause.For example, RET mutations may.....
A 3 year old boy is brought to his general practitioner again by his worried mother. She is concerned that he remains constipated despite trying a third different laxative. Further history showed......
(Stowers Institute for Medical Research) Genetic analysis by Stowers investigators has implications for a genetic disorder known as Hirschsprung Syndrome.
Home Parenteral Nutrition Provides Student a Lifetime of Opportunities
Tim Weaver's glass has always been half full. At least that is how the recent high school graduate, soon to be college student, from Naperville, Ill., has chosen to approach life. Tim was...
Census Bureau releases report on disability status in the U.S.
About 56.7 million people ─ 19 percent of the population ─ had a disability in 2010, according to a broad definition of disability, with more than half of them reporting the disability was severe,...
Protein regulation linked to intellectual disability
(University of Adelaide) Genetics researchers at the University of Adelaide have solved a 40-year mystery for a family beset by a rare intellectual disability - and they've discovered something new ab...
Planar cell polarity genes control connectivity of enteric neurons
The enteric nervous system (ENS), the "little brain" that resides within the gut wall, governs motility, secretion, and blood flow in the human gastrointestinal tract. Failure of the ENS to develop no...
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BACKGROUND: Patients with Hirschsprung disease lack the normal rectoanal inhibitory reflex, which can be studied with anorectal manometry or US. OBJECTIVE: To see whether the rectoanal inhibitory refl...
INTRODUCTION The management of Hirschsprung's disease continues to evolve. This questionnaire survey aimed to determine current surgical management strategies for Hirschsprung's disease in Britain.SUB...
Congenital Anomalies of the Kidney and Urinary Tract can be associated with Hirschsprung disease. We report on three children with a similar 16p11.2 microdeletion with a spectrum of clinical anomalies...
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Researchers have not clearly described the clinical and pathogenetic features of hypoganglionosis and adult-onset Hirschsprung's disease, which cause pseudo-obstruction or intract...
Skip segment Hirschsprung's disease: a systematic review.
PURPOSE: Hirschsprung's disease is characterised by the congenital absence of ganglion cells beginning in the distal rectum and extending proximally for varying distances. 'Zonal aganglionosis' is a p...
