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ArticleCureus2022

Acute Hydronephrosis Secondary to Methadone-Induced Constipation.

Sameer Kandhi, Siddharth Chinta, Ana P Urena Neme, Michael Victoria Guerrero, Miguel A Rodriguez Guerra

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Article in Cureus, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 44% of its field
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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Sameer KandhiInternal Medicine, BronxCare Health System, Bronx, USA.
Siddharth ChintaInternal Medicine, BronxCare Health System, Bronx, USA.
Ana P Urena NemeCardiology, Medicina Cardiovascular Asociada, Santo Domingo, DOM.
Michael Victoria GuerreroMedicine, Instituto Tecnologico de Santo Domingo, Santo Domingo, DOM.
Miguel A Rodriguez GuerraMedicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Wakefield Campus, Bronx, USA.
Montefiore Medical Center · USInstituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo · DOMemorialCare Health System · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Opioid-induced constipation is a significant medical problem accounting for over 40% to 60% of patients without cancer receiving opioids. We report a unique case of a 71-year-old male with a history of opioid use disorder now on methadone maintenance presenting with severe opioid-induced constipation and fecal impaction causing extrinsic compression on the right-sided ureter resulting in right hydronephrosis and hydroureter that improved with aggressive bowel regime with the stool softener, laxatives and enemas. Methadone alone can predispose to hydroureter with hydronephrosis due to external compression from the severe intestinal dilation secondary to opioid-induced constipation.

Indexed as

hydronephrosislaxativesmethadoneopioid induced constipationopioid use disorders

Identifiers

PMID35719767
PMCPMC9203249
OpenAlexW4280565288

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