Dinning P. G., Smith T. K., Scott S. M. Pathophysiology of colonic causes of chronic constipation // Neurogastroenterol. <...> Quality of life after subtotal colectomy for slow-transit constipation: both quality and quantity count // Dis. <...> Higgins P. D., Johanson J. F. Epidemiology of constipation in North America: a systematic review // Am. <...> Johanson J. F., Sonnenberg A., Koch T. R. Clinical epidemiology of chronic constipation // J. Clin. <...> Tunaley A. Constipation the secret national problem // Nutrition. 1974. <...> Wexner S., Daniel N., Jagelman D. Colectomy for constipation: physiologic investigation is the key to success // Dis. <...> A. Kurygin THE DIAGNOSTIC ALGORITHM IN PATIENTS WITH SEVERE CHRONIC CONSTIPATON WITHOUT AGANGLIONOSIS OF THE LARGE INTESTINE Fedorov department of faculty surgery of Kirov Military Medical Academy, Saint-Petersburg The algorithm of special study in patients with severe chronic constipations includes the chronometry of passage of sulphate barium along the gastric tract with the assessment of evacuation function of each part of the large intestine, the irrigoscopy, the fibrocolonoscopy, the investigation of motor function of sigmoid colon. <...> The proposed diagnostic algorithm allows the determination of part or parts of the large intestine with incompetent motor and evacuation functions and decision on the necessary extent of resection of the colon. <...> Запор, или коистипацня. представляет собой хроническую нозологическую форму (К 59.0 по МКБ-10), которая характеризуется задержкой стула более чем на 48 ч. <...>