The Digestive Health Center offers a multidisciplinary approach to diagnosing and treating chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction.
Conditions Treated
- Myopathy
- Neuropathy
Testing Options
- ANNA-1/anti-Hu (when paraneoplastic syndrome is suspected)
- Brain imaging (leukoencephalopathy in cases of CIPO related to MNGIE)
- Chest CT
- Contrast follow-through study (SB dilation/small bowel diverticulosis, pneumatosis intestinalis)
- CTE (excludes organic causes of mechanical obstruction)
- EGD with small bowel biopsies
- Excretory urograms
- KUB (air-fluid levels on plain X-ray abdominal films)
- Labs:
- Albumin
- ANA
- CBC
- CRP
- ESR
- Glucose
- Liver enzymes
- TSH
- Vitamin B12
- Lactic acid (at rest and during exercise) and genetic analysis
Treatment Options
- Adequate caloric intake - feeding tube/TPN, dietician, nutrition specialist
- Promote motility (erythromycin)
- Treat SIBO and intractable pain
