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ReviewInternal and emergency medicine2024

Constipation: a neglected condition in older emergency department patients.

Fabio Salvi, Roberta Petrino, Simon P Conroy, Rosa Liperoti, Luca Paoletti, Alessia Beccacece, Giuseppina dell'Aquila, Massimiliano Fedecostante, Antonio Cherubini

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Review in Internal and emergency medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Trial
  2. The mechanisms and management of fecal incontinence in geriatric neurological diseases.Clinical autonomic research : official journal of the Clinical Autonomic Research Society · 2026
    Review
  3. Article
  4. Consumption of DietaryFoods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
    Article
  5. Giant Rectal Fecaloma Treated with Carbonated Soft Drink and Argon Plasma Coagulation.European journal of case reports in internal medicine · 2025
    Article
4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Fabio SalviDepartment of Geriatrics and Emergency Care, IRCCS, Italian National Research Centres on Aging (I.N.R.C.A.), Via della Montagnola n. 81, 60127, Ancona, Italy. f.salvi@inrca.it.ORCID 0000-0001-6349-4130
Roberta PetrinoDepartment of Critical Care, Emergency Medicine Unit, Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, Lugano, Switzerland.
Simon P ConroyMedical Research Council (MRC) Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing, University College London, London, UK.
Rosa LiperotiFondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
Luca PaolettiDepartment of Geriatrics and Emergency Care, IRCCS, Italian National Research Centres on Aging (I.N.R.C.A.), Via della Montagnola n. 81, 60127, Ancona, Italy.
Alessia BeccaceceDepartment of Geriatrics and Emergency Care, IRCCS, Italian National Research Centres on Aging (I.N.R.C.A.), Via della Montagnola n. 81, 60127, Ancona, Italy.
Giuseppina dell'AquilaDepartment of Geriatrics and Emergency Care, IRCCS, Italian National Research Centres on Aging (I.N.R.C.A.), Via della Montagnola n. 81, 60127, Ancona, Italy.
Massimiliano Fedecostante *Department of Geriatrics and Emergency Care, IRCCS, Italian National Research Centres on Aging (I.N.R.C.A.), Via della Montagnola n. 81, 60127, Ancona, Italy.
Antonio Cherubini *Department of Geriatrics and Emergency Care, IRCCS, Italian National Research Centres on Aging (I.N.R.C.A.), Via della Montagnola n. 81, 60127, Ancona, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Constipation and fecal impaction are common issues with the potential for significant morbidity in older people presenting to the Emergency Department (ED). While many of these patients present with classical symptoms of constipation or fecal impaction, atypical presentations are also frequent. These atypical presentations may include paradoxical diarrhea, fecal incontinence, urinary retention or overflow incontinence, hyperactive or hypoactive delirium, anorexia/dysphagia, and syncope. In addition, various clinical conditions (such as dementia, Parkinson's disease, dehydration, and hypothyroidism) and medications (such as opiate analgesics, anticholinergics, diuretics, calcium channel blockers, anti-parkinsonian drugs, and oral iron supplements) are associated with constipation and should be considered during the diagnostic process in the ED. This narrative review specifically focuses on the prevalence, presentation, diagnoses, and management of constipation in older ED patients.

Indexed as

ConstipationEmergency Service, HospitalAgedAged, 80 and overHumansPrevalenceAtypical presentationsConstipationEmergency departmentFecal impactionMultimorbidityOlder adults

Identifiers

PMID39083165

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