Open AccessAdult patients with allied disorders of Hirschsprung’s disease in emergency department: An 11-year retrospective study
Author(s) -
Shuai Jiang,
Cong-Ying Song,
Meng-Xiao Feng,
Yuan Lü
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
world journal of gastrointestinal surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1948-9366
DOI - 10.4240/wjgs.v14.i7.656
Subject(s) - medicine , emergency department , constipation , perforation , odds ratio , disease , depression (economics) , pediatrics , abdominal pain , logistic regression , body mass index , surgery , psychiatry , punching , materials science , economics , metallurgy , macroeconomics
In the past years, only a few studies with a limited number of adult patients analyzed clinical features of allied disorders of Hirschsprung's disease (ADHD), most of which were individual case reports or lacked detailed clinical information. Although many studies have reported patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with recurrent abdominal symptoms for a number of disorders, there are few data involving ADHD. However, owing to a lack of awareness of the disease, misdiagnoses and mistreatments are common. Severe complications such as perforation, bleeding, malabsorption, and even death in ADHD had been reported by many studies.