Causas más frecuentes de constipación en nuestro medio / More frequent causes of constipación in our means

At the Digestive Motility Department on gastroenterology floor of the Hospital de Clinicas Jose de San Martin, 165 patients were evaluated due to chronic constipation, underlying the most frequent causes in our environment. The use of the present diagnostic methods is suggested following a suitable clinical orientation. The most frequent causes of constipation after this test were: chronic idiopathic constipation in 112 cases (67.87 per cent) and with megarectum, megasigma and megacolon 32 cases (19.09 per cent), rectocele in 9 cases (5.45 per cent), rectal prolapse in 5 cases (3.03 per cent), enf. De Hirschprung 5 cases (3.03 per cent) and anal estenosis 2 cases (1.21 per cent).