Pubblicato su Frontiers – Disturbi intestinali in pazienti con gravi lesioni cerebrali acquisite sottoposti a neuroriabilitazione: risultati di un’indagine nazionale in Italia

Guido MBSezione - 05 - gravi cerebrolesioni acquisite

 

Bowel disorders in patients with severe acquired brain injury receiving neurorehabilitation: results from a national survey in Italy

Domenico Intiso1* Andrea Montis2 Federico Scarponi3 Bahia Hakiki4,5 Anna Cassio6 Rossella Lopes7 Susanna Lavezzi8
  • 1Unit of Neuro-rehabilitation and Rehabilitation Medicine, IRCCS “Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza”, San Giovanni Rotondo, Foggia, Italy
  • 2Rehabilitation Medicine and Neurorehabilitation Unit, ASL, Oristano, Italy
  • 3Department of Rehabilitation, San Giovanni Battista Hospital, ASL 3, Foligno, Perugia, Italy
  • 4IRCCS Don Carlo Gnocchi ONLUS, Firenze, Italy
  • 5Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
  • 6Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, AUSL Piacenza, Piacenza, Italy
  • 7Functional Recovery and Rehabilitation Unit, Cannizzaro Emergency Hospital, Catania, Italy
  • 8Severe Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit, Department of Neuroscience and Rehabilitation, S. Anna University Hospital, Ferrara, Italy

 

Background: Several studies have focused the relationship between cerebral lesions and gut function that has been defined as “brain-gut axis.” However, patients with brain damage can also present with different bowel dysfunctions (BDs), frequently observed during rehabilitation stay, such as fecal incontinence, constipation and diarrhea. Limited data has been reported in the literature about the occurrence and management of BDs and no study has yet investigated this issue in patients with severe acquired brain injury (sABI).

 

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