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Akira Yokoyama1, Naohiro Dairaku, Shinichi Ikeya
1Department of Gastroenterology, Iwaki Kyoritsu General Hospital, Japan.
Abstract:
A 61-year-old man who had taken several kinds of psychotropic agents for schizophrenia from eighteen was admitted due to acute abdomen. In spite of any treatment he died after arrival. The autopsy revealed marked dilation of gastrointestinal tracts without necrosis through stomach to rectum and pathological examination disclosed hypoganglionosis of whole gastrointestinal wall. We thought that he died of abdominal compartment syndrome as a result of acute on chronic secondary pseudo-obstruction of gastrointestinal tracts due to acquired hypoganglionosis, megacolon, and aerophagia.
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