A Case of Stercoral Colitis Complicated by Ischemic Colitis in a Young Patient

Stercoral colitis complicated by ischemic colitis is rare. Current literature has focused on the radiographic characteristics of stercoral colitis and management of bowel perforation resulting from complicated stercoral colitis. This case report describes possible challenges in diagnosing and managi...

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Autores principales: Uwagbale, Ese, Bodiwala, Vimal, Agbroko, Solomon, Bigajer, Elliot
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9288860/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35859979
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26050
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author Uwagbale, Ese
Bodiwala, Vimal
Agbroko, Solomon
Bigajer, Elliot
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description Stercoral colitis complicated by ischemic colitis is rare. Current literature has focused on the radiographic characteristics of stercoral colitis and management of bowel perforation resulting from complicated stercoral colitis. This case report describes possible challenges in diagnosing and managing stercoral colitis complicated by ischemic colitis. We present a case of stercoral colitis complicated by ischemic colitis in a 28-year-old woman who presented with lower gastrointestinal bleeding. 
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spelling pubmed-92888602022-07-19 A Case of Stercoral Colitis Complicated by Ischemic Colitis in a Young Patient Uwagbale, Ese Bodiwala, Vimal Agbroko, Solomon Bigajer, Elliot Cureus Internal Medicine Stercoral colitis complicated by ischemic colitis is rare. Current literature has focused on the radiographic characteristics of stercoral colitis and management of bowel perforation resulting from complicated stercoral colitis. This case report describes possible challenges in diagnosing and managing stercoral colitis complicated by ischemic colitis. We present a case of stercoral colitis complicated by ischemic colitis in a 28-year-old woman who presented with lower gastrointestinal bleeding.  Cureus 2022-06-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9288860/ /pubmed/35859979 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26050 Text en Copyright © 2022, Uwagbale et al. https://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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Uwagbale, Ese
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A Case of Stercoral Colitis Complicated by Ischemic Colitis in a Young Patient
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title_short A Case of Stercoral Colitis Complicated by Ischemic Colitis in a Young Patient
title_sort case of stercoral colitis complicated by ischemic colitis in a young patient
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9288860/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35859979
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26050
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