Herbal enema: At the cost of colon

Various colonic side-effects of herbal enema have been reported in literature ranging from mild abdominal discomfort to self-limiting haemorrhagic colitis. It rarely requires blood transfusion or subtotal colectomy. We report a 57-year-old male patient developing severe ileo-colitis with persistent...

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Autores principales: Prasad, Parmanand, Tantia, Om, Patle, Nirmal M, Mukherjee, Jayanta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Unusual Cases
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3401717/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22837601
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-9941.97601
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description Various colonic side-effects of herbal enema have been reported in literature ranging from mild abdominal discomfort to self-limiting haemorrhagic colitis. It rarely requires blood transfusion or subtotal colectomy. We report a 57-year-old male patient developing severe ileo-colitis with persistent massive rectal bleeding immediately after herbal enema administration for the treatment of chronic constipation and was resistant to conservative management. Patient was managed successfully with emergency total laparoscopic colectomy. Post-operative recovery of the patient was excellent.
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spelling pubmed-34017172012-07-26 Herbal enema: At the cost of colon Prasad, Parmanand Tantia, Om Patle, Nirmal M Mukherjee, Jayanta J Minim Access Surg Unusual Cases Various colonic side-effects of herbal enema have been reported in literature ranging from mild abdominal discomfort to self-limiting haemorrhagic colitis. It rarely requires blood transfusion or subtotal colectomy. We report a 57-year-old male patient developing severe ileo-colitis with persistent massive rectal bleeding immediately after herbal enema administration for the treatment of chronic constipation and was resistant to conservative management. Patient was managed successfully with emergency total laparoscopic colectomy. Post-operative recovery of the patient was excellent. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3401717/ /pubmed/22837601 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-9941.97601 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Minimal Access Surgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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