Abdominal mass medical therapy

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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.