ESTUDO COMPARATIVO ENTRE AS SOLUÇÕES DE MANITOL, PICOSSULFATO DE SÓDIO E FOSFATO MONOBÁSICO E DIBÁSICO DE SÓDIO NO PREPARO DE CÓLON PARA COLONOSCOPIA 1 COMPARISON OF COLON CLEANSING METHODS IN PREPARATION FOR COLONOSCOPY.

Currently, colonoscopy has been a first choice exam to evaluate colon disease. This procedure also has had essencial role in the therapeutic approach of certain groups of pathologies. Colonic cleansing is a necessary and previous stage to do elective colonoscopy. The quality of the colon preparation has been found related directly to the sucess of procedure. Three solutions were compared as colonic cleansing agents in adult patients submitted to colonoscopy at ambulatory regimen. Sixty patients were randomized and then divided into three groups of twenty persons. Each one of these groups was submitted to a colonic cleansing with one of these studied solutions: 10% mannitol solution, sodium picosulphate and sodium phosphate. Taste, tolerance, associated side effects and