Hirschsprung's disease
Common Name(s)
Hirschsprung's disease, Hirschsprung disease 1
Advocacy and Support Organizations
Condition Specific Organizations
Following organizations serve the condition "Hirschsprung's disease" for support, advocacy or research.
AGMD is a nonprofit international organization which serves as an integral educational resource concerning digestive motility diseases and disorders. It also functions as an important information base for members of the medical and scientific communities. In addition, it provides a forum for patients suffering from digestive motility diseases and disorders as well as their families and members of the medical community.
We are a support group and website where families can share information about Mowat-Wilson Syndrome. Our website includes support group information, a forum, photos and profiles of children with MWS and parent survey pages. We want to help inform the public about this rare condition and to help those affected by it not feel so alone by giving them a place to exchange information and experiences with others in the same situation.
The Pull-thru Network is a volunteer-based organization dedicated to providing education, information, support and advocacy for those individuals, and the families of those individuals, who are affected by any congenital anorectal, colorectal or urogenital disorder and any of the variety of related diagnoses.
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Advocacy and Support Organizations
Condition Specific Organizations
Following organizations serve the condition "Hirschsprung's disease" for support, advocacy or research.
AGMD is a nonprofit international organization which serves as an integral educational resource concerning digestive motility diseases and disorders. It also functions as an important information base for members of the medical and scientific communities. In addition, it provides a forum for patients suffering from digestive motility diseases and disorders as well as their families and members of the medical community.
http://www.agmd-gimotility.org We are a support group and website where families can share information about Mowat-Wilson Syndrome. Our website includes support group information, a forum, photos and profiles of children with MWS and parent survey pages. We want to help inform the public about this rare condition and to help those affected by it not feel so alone by giving them a place to exchange information and experiences with others in the same situation.
http://www.mowatwilson.org The Pull-thru Network is a volunteer-based organization dedicated to providing education, information, support and advocacy for those individuals, and the families of those individuals, who are affected by any congenital anorectal, colorectal or urogenital disorder and any of the variety of related diagnoses.
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Finding the right clinical trial for Hirschsprung's disease can be challenging. However, with TrialsFinder (which uses the Reg4ALL database and privacy controls by Private Access), you can permit researchers to let you know opportunities to consider - all without revealing your identity.
Scientific Literature
Articles from the PubMed Database
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The terms "Hirschsprung's disease" returned 166 free, full-text research articles on human participants.
First 3 results:
Journal: Chirurgia (Bucur). ;109(2):208-12.
Hirschsprung's disease, or congenital megacolon,is a malformation characterised by the absence of ganglion cells in the distal bowel. Most often, the aganglionic segment includes the rectosigmoid, but it may extend proximally to variable length. In late years, significant improvements ...
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Many publications have evaluated the correlation between RET, PHOX2B polymorphisms and Hirschsprung's disease with conflicting results. We performed this meta-analysis to clarify the association of RET, PHOX2B polymorphisms with HSCR.
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Interstitial cells of Cajal (ICC) are critical to gastrointestinal motility. The phenotypes of ICC progenitors have been observed in the mouse gut, but whether they exist in the human colon and what abnormal changes in their quantity and ultrastructure are present in Hirschsprung's ...
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Reviews from the PubMed Database
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The terms "Hirschsprung's disease" returned 13 free, full-text review articles on human participants.
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Journal: Anat Rec (Hoboken). 2012 Oct;295(10):1628-38.
Hirschsprung's disease (HSCR) is a developmental disorder of the enteric nervous system, which occurs due to the failure of neural crest cells to fully colonize the gut during embryonic development. It is characterized by the absence of the enteric ganglia in a variable length of ...
Journal: World J. Gastroenterol.. 2011 Dec;17(45):4937-44.
Hirschsprung's disease is a congenital disorder that occurs in 1:5000 live births. It is characterised by an absence of enteric neurons along a variable region of the gastrointestinal tract. Hirschsprung's disease is classified as a multigenic disorder, because the same phenotype ...
Journal: Neurogastroenterol. Motil.. 2009 Feb;21(2):113-27.
The enteric nervous system (ENS) is the largest and most complicated subdivision of the peripheral nervous system. Its action is necessary to regulate many of the functions of the gastrointestinal tract including its motility. Whilst the ENS has been studied extensively by developmental ...
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Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Clinical Trial Information This information is provided by ClinicalTrials.gov
Condition Summary: Hirschsprung Disease; Enterocolitis
Finding the right clinical trial for Hirschsprung's disease can be challenging. However, with TrialsFinder (which uses the Reg4ALL database and privacy controls by Private Access), you can permit researchers to let you know opportunities to consider - all without revealing your identity.