METHOD OF PREDICTING DEVELOPMENT OF IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME Russian patent published in 2008 - IPC A61B10/00 G01N33/569 

FIELD: medicine; gastroenterology.

SUBSTANCE: perform microflora analysis, thus at detection as a part of an endoluminal jejunum microflora of concentration of a microflora of 10⁷ microbic cells in 1 ml of intestinal contents and more and at concentration of a mucous microflora in biopsy materials of a jejunum of 10¹³ microbic bodies in 1 g of biopsy material and more and at content in biopsy material of mucosa of a jejunum and among an endoluminal microflora of a jejunum of eubacteria, lactic acid bacillus, aerobic actinomycetes, aerobic coccuses and anaerobia 75% and more from a total microbiocenosis of an intestine, and also at a phagocytic index less than 27% and level of secretory immunoglobulin IgA of 190 mkg/ml and less, prognosticate IBS development as a postinfectious syndrome.

EFFECT: increase of accuracy of predicting development of an irritable bowel syndrome.

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