Elimination Disorder
Resources for Patients and Caregivers
Elimination disorders all involve the inappropriate elimination of urine or feces and are usually first diagnosed in childhood or adolescence. This group of disorders includes enuresis, the repeated voiding of urine into inappropriate places, and encopresis, the repeated passage of feces into inappropriate places.
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Wiki Number: 15 Elimination Disorder
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Symptoms: Wikipedia claims it does not exist, unless as an eating or thinking disorder.
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Youtube Video: The Poo in You
Constipation and Encopresis Education
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Resources for Physicians, Counselors and Researchers
4 CURRENT ARTICLES
FROM PUBMED
The world-wide medical research
reports chosen for each diagnosis
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PubMed article’s summary-abstract.
- Race Adjustment of Pulmonary Function Tests in the Diagnosis and Management of COPD: A Scoping Reviewby Sean Richard Davidson on May 6, 2024
CONCLUSION: The limited literature does not support the use of race-based lung function prediction equations. However, this assertion does not provide guidance for every specific clinical situation. For African Americans with COPD, the use of race-based prediction equations appears to fall short in enhancing diagnostic accuracy, classifying severity of impairment, or predicting subsequent clinical events. We do not have information comparing race-neutral vs race-based algorithms on prediction of...
- Duodenal stenosis, an unusual presentation of eosinophilic gastroenteritis: a case reportby Clelia Di Mari on May 3, 2024
Eosinophilic gastrointestinal diseases (EGIDs) are rare, chronic inflammatory disorders characterized by eosinophilic infiltration of the gastrointestinal tract. Symptoms and clinical presentations vary depending on the site and layer of the gastrointestinal wall infiltrated by eosinophils. Gastrointestinal obstruction is a serious, though uncommon, presentation. Management can be extremely challenging because of the rarity of the condition and the lack of robust scientific evidence. Current...
- Emerging evidence of context-dependent synapse elimination by phagocytes in the CNSby Fang-Shuai Shen on May 3, 2024
Precise synapse elimination is essential for the establishment of a fully developed neural circuit during brain development and higher function in adult brain. Beyond immune and nutrition support, recent groundbreaking studies have revealed that phagocytic microglia and astrocytes can actively and selectively eliminate synapses in normal and diseased brains, thereby mediating synapse loss and maintaining circuit homeostasis. Multiple lines of evidence indicate that the mechanisms of synapse...
- Report from a text-based blood pressure monitoring prospective cohort trial among postpartum women with hypertensive disorders of pregnancyby Ahmed S Z Moustafa on May 3, 2024
CONCLUSION: Implementing a standardized postpartum education session was associated with improvement in patient's knowledge. Further studies are needed with more longitudinal follow up to assess if this program would also result in improved long-term outcomes and decreased hospital readmission rates.