title: [History of patients with pelvic floor dysfunction].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  1) To determine differences between sexes; 2) To determine differences by sex and age groups in symptom onset, time of evolution, clinical forms and probable associated causes.
  
  
  METHODS
  83 consecutive patients with diagnosed PCP (X age = 50.9 SE 2.21). 25 males (30.1% x 51.2 years-old, SE 4.1) and 58 females (69.9%, X 50.8 years-old, SE 2.2). Patients with organic colon-rectum pathology (with the exception of hemorrhoidal pathology, proctologic surgery and active anus fissure) had been excluded.
  
  
  METHODS
  Colonic Double-contrasted Rx, rectum-sigma endoscopy, and eventually a Colonofibroscopy Historic facts and syndromic protocol. Diagnosis criteria: 1) Perineal inspection: perineal contraction with pujo; 2) Rectal tact; 3) Ano-Rectum manometry with perfused system; 4) 150 ml Rectal balloon expulsion dynamic; 5) Utoreported signs and symptoms from a cuestionnaire ad hoc. Division into evolutive groups (continuous and intermittent). Division by age (< = 5, 5.1-25, > 25 years old).
  
  
  METHODS
  descriptive, comparative, correlation, prospective, simple blind.
  
  
  METHODS
  Levene, descriptive, chi square, ANOVA, Kruskall-Wallis, Kendal tau b.
  
  
  RESULTS
  1) Difference in sex proportion was significative (p = 0.0001); 2) There were not differences between sexes in age media at the moment of the study (p = 0.92; 3) The continue evolutive form represented 77.1%, (p = 0.0001) but there weren't differences between sexes (p = 0.19) There weren't evolutive differences between age groups. (p = 0-78) 4) Age of onsec: x = 24.04 years-old, SE 2.02 (4-80 years-old), without differences between sexes (p = 0.16). 14.5% started before age of 5, 85% after that age, without differences between sexes (p = 0.07); 5) The time of evolution x = 26.7 years, SE 2.21, without differences between sexes (p = 0.25); 6) Potential causes were divides into tree categories: I "the patient doesn't remember associated facts" (30.1%, II: psychological or physical stress (39.8%), III: facts related to sexual trauma (30.1%). The differences (p = 0.0001); 7) Analyzed in general by sec, the most common cause was psychological-physical stress rather than sexual trauma in men, while among women sexual trauma was most common than psychological-physical stress (p = 0.03); 8) Analyzed by age groups: in the under 5 years-old group: main cause was "I don't remember". In 5.1-25-years-old group: sexual trauma; and psychological-physical stress was the main cause in > 25 years-old group (p 0.0001).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  1) Women suffer from or consult much more frequently than man; 2) Once the disease is present, there would not be differences in age, age of onset, or time or evolution into proportions by sex; 3) The continue forms were the predominant ones; 4) The probable associated causes vary for each age group; 5) The sub-group "I don't remember" could represent in many cases a mismatch learning, but not constantly (there are cases of stress in familiar context); 6) In the subgroup "late childhood-adolescence" the predominant causes were traumatic experiences in erotic zones (rapping intent, sexual abuse, fantasies, elimination of parasites by the anus); 7) in the subgroup "older than 25 years-old" the predominant causes were physical stress, (violence, accidents, surgery) or emotional stress (familiar environment, social environment, affective losses). Some paradigmatic cases are presented. Anismus would be a complex situation involving an striated, voluntary, automatizated muscle (puborectalis) controlling independently genital-sexual, urinary and ano-rectal functions.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Gastroenterología, Hospital Militar Central Cir. My. Dr. Cosme Argerich, Sección Estudios Funcionales, Buenos Aires, Argentina. glopez@intramed.net.ar
authors.forename: A R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Lopez Gaston
authors.forename: Adriana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Andrüsch
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Catuogno
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lopez De Luise
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Vazquez
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D017668:Age of Onset; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001118:Argentina / Q000453:epidemiology; D002648:Child; D003248:Constipation / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009135:Muscular Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D017773:Pelvic Floor; D015995:Prevalence; D011446:Prospective Studies; D017678:Sex Distribution; D012742:Sex Offenses; D016037:Single-Blind Method; D013312:Stress, Physiological / Q000150:complications