Induction of potentially lethal hypermagnesemia, ischemic colitis, and toxic megacolon by a preoperative mechanical bowel preparation: report of a case

A 67-year-old man was diagnosed with rectal cancer. The tumor invaded the subserosal layer, but it was not large, and there was no sign of obstruction. Neo-adjuvant chemotherapy reduced the size of the tumor. The patient was admitted to our hospital for surgery. For mechanical bowel preparation, he...

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Published in:Surg Case Rep
Main Authors: Sugiyama, Masahiko, Kusumoto, Eiji, Ota, Mitsuhiko, Kimura, Yasue, Tsutsumi, Norifumi, Oki, Eiji, Sakaguchi, Yoshihisa, Kusumoto, Tetsuya, Ikejiri, Koji, Maehara, Yoshihiko
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2016
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Case Report
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4761353/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26943694
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40792-016-0145-6
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