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Intestinal pseudo-obstruction associated with oral morphine
B V Murthy1, F Ion, J R Winstanley
1Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, UK.
European Journal of Anaesthesiology
|July 3, 1998
Abstract:
Morphine is recommended as the strong opioid of choice by the World Health Organization (WHO) for cancer pain management. It is associated with delay in gastro-intestinal transit; as a result, patients may experience marked constipation. We describe a case of intestinal pseudo-obstruction associated with the use of oral morphine in a terminally ill cancer patient.