A 72-year-old woman with a history of narcotic bowel syndrome and multiple prior abdominal surgeries presents to the emergency department (ED) for severe right lower abdominal and rectal pain that has ...
A 32-year-old woman with a recent dry cough presents to the emergency department (ED). The patient reports a 6-day history of right upper quadrant pain that is worse when she coughs, moves, laughs, or ...
OR XYLAZINE. IN TONIGHT’S WOMAN’S DOCTOR, IF YOU HAVE STOMACH OR GI ISSUES, YOU MAY JUST THINK IT’S IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME, BUT IT MAY BE SOMETHING MORE THAN THAT. 11 NEWS ANCHOR LACEE GRIFFITH SITS ...
The terrible pain started a week earlier, and she had already been to the emergency room twice. By Lisa Sanders, M.D. “You need to go back to the hospital,” the visiting nurse declared shortly after ...
It's easy to feel lost in the vast wilderness that is stomach-or more accurately, abdominal-pain. But doctors have learned to read our midsection like a map. And where our pain radiates from often ...
The case description for Case 23-2013 appears below. What diagnostic tests will prove useful? What is the diagnosis? The correct diagnosis, along with the full description of the case and the ...
A 63-year-old woman showed up at the emergency department of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston with severe stomach pain, nausea, and vomiting. She told doctors that for the past month she had ...
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Functional abdominal pain (FAP) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) are among the most commonly diagnosed medical problems in pediatrics. Symptom-based Rome III criteria for FAP and IBS have been ...
Depending on the underlying virus, the stomach flu can cause symptoms that last for up to a few days at a time. Abdominal pain is a common symptom of stomach flu, but it’s unlikely to last beyond ...