Abdominal emergencies in the geriatric patient

Abdominal pain is one of the most frequent reasons that elderly people visit the emergency department (ED). In this article, we review the deadliest causes of abdominal pain in this population, including mesenteric ischemia, abdominal aortic aneurysm, and appendicitis and potentially lethal non-abdo...

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Autores principales: Spangler, Ryan, Van Pham, Thuy, Khoujah, Danya, Martinez, Joseph P
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4306086/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25635203
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12245-014-0043-2
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description Abdominal pain is one of the most frequent reasons that elderly people visit the emergency department (ED). In this article, we review the deadliest causes of abdominal pain in this population, including mesenteric ischemia, abdominal aortic aneurysm, and appendicitis and potentially lethal non-abdominal causes. We also highlight the pitfalls in diagnosing, or rather misdiagnosing, these clinical entities.
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spelling pubmed-43060862015-01-29 Abdominal emergencies in the geriatric patient Spangler, Ryan Van Pham, Thuy Khoujah, Danya Martinez, Joseph P Int J Emerg Med Review Abdominal pain is one of the most frequent reasons that elderly people visit the emergency department (ED). In this article, we review the deadliest causes of abdominal pain in this population, including mesenteric ischemia, abdominal aortic aneurysm, and appendicitis and potentially lethal non-abdominal causes. We also highlight the pitfalls in diagnosing, or rather misdiagnosing, these clinical entities. Springer 2014-10-21 /pmc/articles/PMC4306086/ /pubmed/25635203 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12245-014-0043-2 Text en Copyright © 2014 Spangler et al.; licensee Springer. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited.
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