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The differential diagnosis for acute onset of bloody diarrhea in an elderly woman principally is infectious and ischemic colitis; far less common is inflammatory bowel disease.
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Colonoscopic photographs show the evolution of ischemic...
- Acute Bloody Diarrhea: A Medical Emergency for Patients of All Ages
Acute bloody diarrhea should be considered a medical...
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31 Οκτ 2020 · Ischemic colitis. Ischemic colitis presents as acute, inflammatory bloody diarrhea with localized abdominal pain, with 90% of cases seen in the sixth and seventh decade of life. Patients may typically have hypotension, thrombosis, constipation, vasculitis, or cancer as precipitants to the episode.
15 Δεκ 2008 · Acute bloody diarrhea should be considered a medical emergency. Its causes are frequently serious or actionable or both and are usually identified. However, acute bloody diarrhea as a stand-alone clinical presentation has received little scholarly attention in the past several decades.
4 Σεπ 2024 · Invasive diarrhea, or dysentery, is defined as diarrhea with visible blood or mucus, in contrast to watery diarrhea. Dysentery is commonly associated with fever and abdominal pain. ETIOLOGY. Most cases of acute diarrhea are due to infections and are self-limited.
Diarrhea in the elderly population is one disease that needs special attention in treatment and management, especially in acute- and long-term care residents, because of their multiple comorbidities, immunosenescence, frailty, and poor nutritional status.
The approach to an elderly patient with diarrhea is to ensure proper hydration using available oral rehydration solutions, proceed with diagnostic tests likely to yield a positive result, avoid the use of harmful antiperistaltic drugs, and provide adequate follow-up of the nutritional state.
Diarrhea in the elderly, although a common medical symptom, can range from a benign self-limited disease to a life-threatening condition.
