Onset of Ischemic Colitis Following Use of Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS) Exercise Equipment
| Autor: | Satoshi Yoneda, Hiroshi Fukui, Masatoshi Ishikawa, Hitoshi Yoshiji, Masato Takano, Hiroyuki Kitano, Tatsuhiro Tsujimoto, Yoshinobu Matsumura, Takuya Tsuruzono, Junichi Yamao |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Colon Electrical muscle stimulation medicine.medical_treatment Electric Stimulation Therapy Stimulation Ischemic colitis Internal Medicine medicine Humans Muscle Skeletal Aged business.industry Atrial fibrillation General Medicine medicine.disease Surgery Bloody medicine.anatomical_structure Anesthesia Exercise equipment Abdomen Muscle Stimulation business Colitis Ischemic |
| Zdroj: | Internal Medicine. 43:693-695 |
| ISSN: | 1349-7235 0918-2918 |
| Popis: | Our patient was a 71-year-old man who presented with lower abdominal pain, and bloody and white mucosal stools. He purchased by mail-order an electrical muscle stimulation (EMS) device, which he strapped onto his lower abdomen, and for 2 consecutive days he underwent muscle stimulation comprising 600 contractions at 2.40 mA and 1.20 V over a 10 minute period. He experienced the onset of lower abdominal pain immediately following muscle stimulation on the second day, and then passed stools containing blood and white mucus. The cause was thought to be electrical and mechanical stimulation of the lower abdomen by the EMS equipment, either inducing colonic or vascular spasm, or dislodging thrombi associated with atrial fibrillation or atherosclerosis. This is the first known report of ischemic colitis associated with the use of EMS exercise equipment. We report this case in the belief that this condition is likely to become more common with increasing use of such devices. |
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