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Systematic Reviews of Treatments for Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence for the effectiveness of treatments for irritable bowel syndrome.
Reviewed December 2011
7 Resources Found
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| Title: | Cisapride for intestinal constipation |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Cisapride has been used as a prokinetic to treat constipation, but was found to have some serious side effects and was directly associated with fatalities from those side effects. Though it has been removed from the market and has not been used in most ... |
| Date: | Sep 2010 |
| Title: | Bulking agents, antispasmodics and antidepressants for the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | This review evaluates the effectiveness of medical therapies for patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). We considered studies involving bulking agents (a fibre supplement), antispasmodics (smooth muscle relaxants) or antidepressants (drugs used t... |
| Date: | Mar 2009 |
| Title: | Psychological treatments for the management of irritable bowel syndrome |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | In this review, the effectiveness of psychological therapies for adult patients with irritable bowel syndrome was evaluated. Studies involving cognitive behavioural therapy, interpersonal psychotherapy and relaxation therapy or stress management were re... |
| Date: | Sep 2008 |
| Title: | Tegaserod for the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome and chronic constipation |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a chronic, relapsing condition characterized by the presence of abdominal pain and disturbed bowel habit. Symptoms of chronic constipation frequently resemble those of constipation-predominant IBS. Tegaserod (4 or 12 mg... |
| Date: | Jul 2007 |
| Title: | Hypnotherapy for treatment of irritable bowel syndrome |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Studies of hypnotherapy for treatment of IBS.Only a small number of studies of hypnotherapy have been performed and the way these studies were carried out was not up to a high standard. Hypnotherapy was either compared with standard treatment of IBS, wi... |
| Date: | Jul 2007 |
| Title: | Psychosocial interventions for recurrent abdominal pain (RAP) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) in childhood |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Between 4% and 25% of school age children complain of stomach aches / recurrent abdominal pain (RAP) which is severe enough to interfere with their daily activities. For most such children, no organic cause for their pain can be found on physical examin... |
| Date: | Dec 2006 |
| Title: | Herbal medicines for treatment of irritable bowel syndrome |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | The use of herbal medicines for the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome is popular. Traditional Chinese herbal medicine is a common practice in the East, and some clinical trials show a benefit of herbal medicines for symptomatic treatment of this con... |
| Date: | Nov 2005 |
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