What is the syndrome of Payr

Payr syndrome is a disease that is caused by obstruction of the large intestine on the border of the splenic angle, a bend caused by the excessive length of the colon.

The story of the syndrome of Payr

In 1905, the German surgeon and Professor of surgery at the University hospital in Greifswald Irwin payer has been described a characteristic symptomocomplex, which occurred when the stenosis is the largest intestine in the human body - the colon, which is due to the inflection in the place of the splenic curvature.

Payr syndrome - a disease named after the famous surgeon Irvine Payr.

Clinically the syndrome is manifested Payr paroxysmal pain due to stagnation of gases in the intestine or stool in the area of the splenic bending, squeezing or burning and cutting pain in the heart area, feeling of pressure, fullness in the left upper quadrant of the abdomen, shortness of breath, heart palpitations, podgradina pain with mixed feelings of fear, two or one-sided shoulder pain with the recoil in the arm and pain in the back between the shoulder blades.

What are the symptoms of Payr

Payr's disease is the cause of development hronicheskogo colostasis (delay solid fecal substance in the colon due to its excessive accumulation) which affects many adults in different countries. There are certain difficulties in the diagnosis of this disease in turn, this leads to the fact that patients suffering from syndrome of Payr, a long time struggling with different diagnoses other diseases of the retroperitoneum and abdominal cavity.

Typical symptoms of the syndrome of Payr: pain, constipation, sudden loss of appetite, vomiting, nausea, dizziness, irritability.

Disease Payr pain can sharply increase during exercise and after a lot of eating. It is possible to reduce the intensity of pain, if the patient takes a horizontal position. With age, the pain becomes most intense, even excruciating. In turn, abdominal pain caused by spasms of separate sections of the colon, disorders of the intestinal content and tension of the mesentery.

In humans, patients with syndrome of the pyre, reduced detoxication liver function. It is characteristic that the reduction of this function is directly depending on the duration of disease and duration of constipation.

Count on more effective and a conservative treatment is possible only with the most early detection of the disease and correctly chosen treatment or long-term therapy.