A Rare Case of Adult Onset Intussusception Complicated By Narcotic Dependence

This report describes a rare case of adult intussusception in a patient with a history of a Roux-en-Y gastric bypass procedure; complicated by a history of narcotic abuse, methadone dependence, and methamphetamine abuse. Adult patients who have undergone a Roux-en-Y gastric bypass procedure may be a...

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Autores principales: Khan, Saira J, Desmarais, Ashley M, Joseph, Bellal, Amini, Richard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2017
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General Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5298909/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28191368
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.964
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description This report describes a rare case of adult intussusception in a patient with a history of a Roux-en-Y gastric bypass procedure; complicated by a history of narcotic abuse, methadone dependence, and methamphetamine abuse. Adult patients who have undergone a Roux-en-Y gastric bypass procedure may be at an increased risk of developing intussusception, and clinicians involved in their care should be aware of this potential complication.
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spelling pubmed-52989092017-02-10 A Rare Case of Adult Onset Intussusception Complicated By Narcotic Dependence Khan, Saira J Desmarais, Ashley M Joseph, Bellal Amini, Richard Cureus General Surgery This report describes a rare case of adult intussusception in a patient with a history of a Roux-en-Y gastric bypass procedure; complicated by a history of narcotic abuse, methadone dependence, and methamphetamine abuse. Adult patients who have undergone a Roux-en-Y gastric bypass procedure may be at an increased risk of developing intussusception, and clinicians involved in their care should be aware of this potential complication. Cureus 2017-01-08 /pmc/articles/PMC5298909/ /pubmed/28191368 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.964 Text en Copyright © 2017, Khan et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_full A Rare Case of Adult Onset Intussusception Complicated By Narcotic Dependence
title_fullStr A Rare Case of Adult Onset Intussusception Complicated By Narcotic Dependence
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title_short A Rare Case of Adult Onset Intussusception Complicated By Narcotic Dependence
title_sort rare case of adult onset intussusception complicated by narcotic dependence
topic General Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5298909/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28191368
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.964
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