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75-Year-Old Woman With Abdominal Pain and Constipation
Mayo Clinic Proceedings
Vol. 97Issue 1p165–169Published in issue: January, 2022
- Chineze Akusoba
- Anthony Robateau
- Victor Chedid
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A 75-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with a 1-year history of worsening loose stools and abdominal discomfort. Over the course of the year, the patient had experienced regular cycles of liquid stool followed by constipation for the next few days. She had recently started taking loperamide on the days she had diarrhea as recommended by her primary care provider. She denied hematochezia, melena, nocturnal stooling, weight loss, or recent travel. She had a normal screening colonoscopy 4 years prior.