The balloon expulsion test (BET) is a screening tool for rectal evacuation disorders. BET is often performed in conjunction with anorectal manometry. In this report, investigators described a device they developed called the Rectal Expulsion Device (RED), an office-based, point-of-care device that, like BET, can be used to screen for rectal evacuation disorders. With RED, the device is inserted rectally and a cap on the external portion of the device is removed to automatically inflate a balloon at the end of the inserted portion of the device. The patient then attempts expulsion. An abnormal test is retention of the device for \u226560 seconds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a study that included 20 patients with functional constipation and 5 healthy volunteers, all 5 healthy participants expelled the BET and RED devices within 60 seconds each. In comparison, 8 of the 20 patients with functional constipation expelled the BET device within 60 seconds, and 9 of 20 expelled the RED device within 60 seconds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The balloon expulsion test (BET) is a screening tool for rectal evacuation disorders. BET is often performed in conjunction with anorectal manometry. In this report, investigators described a device they developed called the Rectal Expulsion Device (RED), an office-based, point-of-care device that, like BET, can be used to screen for rectal evacuation disorders. With RED, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","categories":[1768,1769],"tags":[3101,1936,2058,3102,3103],"class_list":["post-11428","ec-news","type-ec-news","status-publish","hentry","category-asge-journal-scan","category-asge-kolon","tag-balloon-expulsion-test","tag-bet","tag-colon-2","tag-rectal-expulsion-device","tag-red"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ec-news\/11428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ec-news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ec-news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}