Table 5 Table of results in the three classification groups for the complications of faecal impaction
From: Fecal impaction: a systematic review of its medical complications
Intestinal wall | Intestinal lumen | Adjacent structures | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Age | <= 15 | 3 % | 4 % | 19 % |
(15. 65] | 50 % | 62 % | 39 % | |
>65 | 47 % | 34 % | 42 % | |
Sex | Male | 41 % | 43 % | 42 % |
Female | 59 % | 57 % | 58 % | |
History | Neuro/psychiatric | 25 % | 21 % | 50 % |
Prior hospitalisation | 15 % | 23 % | 8 % | |
Chronic constipation | 56 % | 28 % | 44 % | |
Reason for visit | Abdominal pain | 67 % | 77 % | 36 % |
Chronic constipation | 27 % | 45 % | 14 % | |
Abdominal distension | 13 % | 28 % | 11 % | |
Diarrhoea | 1 % | 11 % | 3 % | |
Treatment | Emergency surgery | 79 % | 57 % | 19 % |
Prognosis | Deaths | 32 % | 28 % | 14 % |