Innovative Balloon Expulsion Testing for Defecation Disorders: Look Before Leaping the Old Path

¹Gastrointestinal Unit, Department of Translational Sciences and New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy;

²Division of Gastroenterology B, AOUI Verona, Verona, Italy;

³UNC Center for Functional GI and Motility Disorders, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.

Correspondence: Christian Lambiase, MD. E-mail: [email protected].