Role of intestinal dysmotility in IBS
- Although abnormal motor patterns have been found in patients with IBS, these patterns are also found in healthy individuals and are therefore not diagnostic for IBS.
- IBS patients have both a reduction and an increase in the number of contractions per minute in IBS patients compared with healthy individuals.
- However, these abnormal motility patterns rarely correlate with IBS symptoms and thus are not sufficient to explain many of the symptoms associated with IBS.
