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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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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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Stercoral Perforation of the Sigmoid Colon in a Schizophrenic Patient [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2015 Stercoral perforation of the colon is a life threatening condition, due to pressure necrosis by hard fecaloma which, are commonly found in chronic constipated patients. We report the case of a 45-year-old schizophrenic woman, under psychiatric treatment
Shiv Kumar Bunkar +2 more
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Woman with constipation and abdominal pain
, 2021 Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open, Volume 2, Issue 4, August 2021.
Allen Quetant, Wesley Eilbert
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Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, Volume 44, Issue 4, Page 621-631, May 2020., 2020 Abstract Background This study evaluated the safety and efficacy of teduglutide in pediatric patients with short bowel syndrome–associated intestinal failure (SBS‐IF). Methods A 24‐week, phase III trial with 2 randomized, double‐blind teduglutide dose groups and a nonblinded standard of care (SOC) arm was used; patients received 0.025 mg/kg or 0.05 mg ...
Samuel A. Kocoshis +12 more
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Hemipelvectomia para tratamento de obstipação e megacólon em um gato com estenose do canal pélvico
Medicina VeterináriaEntre as lesões traumáticas observadas em felinos, as fraturas pélvicas correspondem a cerca de 20% a 30% de todas as fraturas que acometem esta espécie, estando presente em 80% dos casos de constipação recorrente e em 25% dos casos de megacólon.
Rummeniggue José de Oliveira Nascimento +6 more
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Revista Médica Clínica Las Condes, 2012 La constipación crónica es un síntoma de alta frecuencia en la población, siendo uno de los principales motivos de consulta gastroenterológica. Su prevalencia puede ser muy alta en adultos mayores, en especial a nivel de asilos, donde alcanza un 80%. Una
Dr. S. Andrés O´Brien
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Duplicação Intestinal: Causa Rara de Oclusão em Adulto
Gazeta Médica, 2020 A duplicação do tubo digestivo é uma patologia rara, geralmente diagnosticada em idade jovem. O diagnóstico tardio pode associar-se a complicações como a oclusão intestinal, a hemorragia digestiva ou a perfuração de víscera oca.
Nádia Rodrigues Silva +3 more
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A rare cause of the abdominal pain in a 48‐year‐old woman with a history of prior colon surgery
Clinical Case Reports, 2020 Fecal retention in the blind loop of end to side colonic anastomosis can lead to fecaloma without significant colonic distension. Imaging study and colonoscopy examination can assist in making a definite diagnosis.
Jasbir Makker +4 more
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