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Apar Bains1, Seema Tayal1, Nada Al-Hashimi1
1Department of Family Medicine, The Brooklyn Hospital Center, 121 De Kalb Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, 11201, USA.
Abstract:
We present a case of a patient with acute colonic pseudo obstruction (Ogilvie's Syndrome) in a 63-year-old Hispanic male with multiple co morbidities, sent from the Nursing Home for evaluation of progressive abdominal distention. Clinical examination and diagnostic workup confirmed massive colonic dilatation, without mechanical obstruction.
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