A Primary Care Approach to Constipation in Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Advances in Medicine, Volume 2021, Issue 1, 2021., 2021 Constipation is a condition that is very prevalent and is reported in up to 40 percent of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Constipation in this patient population is most commonly secondary to neuromuscular abnormalities, immobility, suboptimal diet, and medication side effects. History taking is frequently limited in
Reshmi Mathew +7 more
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Giant Fecaloma Causing Small Bowel Obstruction: Case Report and Review of the Literature [PDF]
Bulletin of Emergency and Trauma, 2015 Fecaloma is a mass of hardened feces being impacted mostly in rectum and sigmoid. The most common sites of the fecaloma is the sigmoid colon and the rectum.
Mosin Mushtaq +5 more
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Colonoscopic Laxative Instillation for the Fecal-loaded Colon: A Case Series*
Journal of Coloproctology, 2023 Context Postoperative, critically ill, and elderly patients often have fecal loading or impaction. In a few such patients, disimpaction of fecalomas and colon cleansing are difficult. Bowel obstruction, megacolon, lower gastrointestinal bleeding, and gut
Suhas D. Wagle, Aneeta S. Wagle
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Perforation in a patient with stercoral colitis and diverticulosis: who did it? [PDF]
, 2014 Stercoral colitis with perforation of the colon is an uncommon, yet life-threatening cause of the acute abdomen. No one defining symptom exists for stercoral colitis; it may present asymptomatically or with vague symptoms.
Aaron Gottesman +7 more
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A bizarre foreign body in the appendix: A case report [PDF]
, 2013 Foreign bodies are rare causes of appendicitis and, in most cases, ingested foreign bodies pass through the alimentary tract asymptomatically. However, ingested foreign bodies may sometimes remain silent within the appendix for many years without an ...
Antonacci, N +5 more
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Foreign Body Ingestion Followed by Appendiceal Perforation
Case Reports in Surgery, Volume 2021, Issue 1, 2021., 2021 Background. Foreign body ingestion is very common among specific groups, especially children. However, appendicitis and perforated appendix caused by a foreign body is rare. Case summary. A 40‐year‐old female presented with abdominal pain in the right lower quadrant of 10 days duration after accidentally ingesting a drilling bit during a dental ...
Sarah Qassim +3 more
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Clinical and radiological postoperative evaluation of posterior sagittal anorectoplasty in patients with upper and intermediate anorectal malformations [PDF]
, 1997 The PSARP is today the most-used surgical technique for correction of high and intermediary anorectal malformations.There is much controversy in the literature about the post-operative evaluation of these cases.
Lederman, Henrique Manoel +2 more
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Propuesta de una herramienta de evaluación de la salud del anciano institucionalizado basado en lo concepto del Conjunto de Datos Esenciales de Enfermería [PDF]
, 2009 This article aims at presenting a health evaluation tool for the institutionalized aged developed under the concepts of the Nursing Minimum Data Set (NMDS) divided in two sections: identification and health evaluation.
Marin, Heimar de Fatima +1 more
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Effects of conventional treatment of chronic functional constipation on total and segmental colonic and orocecal transit times [PDF]
, 2009 OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effects of conventional treatment of chronic functional constipation on total and segmental colonic transit times and on orocecal transit time.
Morais, Mauro Batista de +2 more
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Stercoraceous perforation, rare but potentially fatal cause: case report [PDF]
, 2023 Stercoraceous perforation is an infrequent pathology but with high mortality rates, it is increasingly recognized as a consequence of chronic constipation, it occurs in elderly people, the diagnosis is a surgical challenge, sudden abdominal pain is the ...
Alvarez Rojas, Andres Felipe +3 more
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