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Acute renal failure secondary to fecal impaction
W C Robbins1, L Kaufman, S Rolfes
1University of Alabama School of Medicine, Huntsville 35801.
Alabama Medicine : Journal of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama
|March 1, 1991
Abstract:
A 23-year-old man presented with a massive fecal impaction, and was subsequently found to be in renal failure along with the presence of intraperitoneal free air on x-ray. Following disimpaction, the renal failure rapidly resolved and exploratory laporotomy revealed no colonic perforations. Obstructive renal failure resulting from fecal impaction is a rare but reported complication. In this report acute renal failure is attributed to severe fecal impaction.