title: [Three cases of irritable bowel syndrome treated with stellate ganglion block].
abstract: We examined three patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) who did not respond to drug therapy and who were treated by stellate ganglion block (SGB) alone. The clinical symptoms improved by the SGB in all these three patients. There was no recurrence. The pathophysiological mechanism of this disease and the therapeutic efficacy of SGB should be elucidated with respect to the autonomic nervous, endocrine and immune systems. These results suggest that SGB therapy is effective for IBS, a typical psychosomatic disease.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kageshima
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Wakasugi
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hajiri
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wada
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Amaki
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001340:Autonomic Nerve Block; D003109:Colonic Diseases, Functional / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013233:Stellate Ganglion