Can You Diagnose the Cause of This Patient's Diarrhea?
| Autor: | Allison Trail |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
Abdominal pain
medicine.medical_specialty education.field_of_study Nausea business.industry Bland diet Malaise 03 medical and health sciences Diarrhea 0302 clinical medicine medicine.anatomical_structure FOLFOX 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Internal medicine medicine Vomiting Abdomen 030211 gastroenterology & hepatology medicine.symptom business education Diagnostic Snapshot medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the Advanced Practitioner in Oncology |
| ISSN: | 2150-0878 |
| Popis: | This article will review the case of a 53-year-old female with a diagnosis of metastatic esophageal cancer receiving treatment on a clinical trial protocol combining chemotherapy/immunotherapy with FOLFOX and nivolumab, who presents to the clinic with 2 weeks of progressively worsening diarrhea. She experienced up to 12 loosely formed to watery bowel movements that were brown in color, not malodorous, and did not float. She also experienced associated abdominal pain and cramping, but denied fever, malaise, nausea, or vomiting. Vital signs were stable. Labs and CT chest, abdomen, and pelvis did not reveal a definitive cause. Dietary modification with a bland diet and loperamide did not significantly improved her symptoms. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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