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Abdominal mass medical therapy
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Medical Therapy
Medical Therapy
- Immediately treat life-threatening causes (such as abdominal aortic aneurysms).
- Ogilvie’s syndrome responds to decompression by IV neostigmine or by a rectal tube.
- Constipation is usually treated with laxatives, increased dietary fiber and fluids, enemas.
- Manual disimpaction is reserved for fecal impaction.
- Stop use of offending medications.
- Masses caused by infections require antibiotics (and possible surgery).
- Organomegaly typically resolves once the underlying etiology is treated.
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