Acute Colonic Necrosis Associated with Sodium Polystyrene Sulfonate (Kayexalate) Enemas in a Critically Ill Patient: Case Report and Review of the Literature

Journal of Trauma

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 395-397

  Rogers, Frederick B ^a   Li, Shuan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BICARBONATE; ENEMA; GLUCOSE; INSULIN; POLYSTYRENESULFONATE SODIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON DISEASE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; INTESTINE NECROSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM ULCER; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

COLON; COLONIC DISEASES; CRITICAL CARE; ENEMA; HUMANS; HYPERKALEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; POLYSTYRENES; SORBITOL;

EID: 0034870083     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-200108000-00031     Document Type: Article

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