ACQUIRED MEGACOLON

A Rare Case of Acquired Segmental Megacolon with Unknown Cause in a Young Woman

Acquired Megacolon is a rare disease that usually presents in elderly people and there have been only few reported cases in literature. In this article we report a 24-year-old woman who had referred with chronic intermittent epigastric pain from 4-5 years ago and also chronic constipation and distension of upper abdominal part. Clinical examinations and imaging studies (chest x-ray, barium enem...

Acquired non-Chagas megacolon associated with the use of psychiatric medication: case report and differential diagnosis with Chagas megacolon.

A case of acquired megacolon in a 62-year-old man with acute abdomen due to sigmoid volvulus is reported. The case was associated with the use of psychiatric medications. The aim in this report was to emphasize the differential diagnosis with Chagas megacolon. Anatomopathological examination did not show any evidence of denervation, ganglionitis and/or myositis, and the serological test for Cha...

Acquired Megacolon as a Complication of Recto-sigmoidectomy for Hirschsprung's Disease.

Constipation Is Related to Small Bowel Disturbance Rather Than Colonic Enlargement in Acquired Chagasic Megacolon

BACKGROUND Constipation is the main symptom of acquired chagasic megacolon. However, a number of patients with Chagas disease without colon involvement also have the same complain. This study evaluated the role of small bowel in constipated patients with Chagas disease with and without megacolon. METHODS Orocecal transit time (OCTT) and oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) in constipated non-ch...

A Case of Megacolon

Megacolon is a relatively rare condition appearing in childhood and characterised by obstinate constipation, dilatation of the colon and hypomotility of its wall. It was Yon Ammon who first described megacolon in 1842, fortyfive years before Hirschsprung, though the disease carries the name of the latter. Since then many {etiological factors have been considered, ranging from malnutrition to ne...