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Alcohol and Alcoholism Advance Access published online on November 29, 2004
Alcohol and Alcoholism, doi:10.1093/alcalc/agh118
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Received September 2, 2004
Revised October 12, 2004
Accepted October 22, 2004

Case Report

ACUTE ABDOMINAL DISTENSION SECONDARY TO URINARY RETENTION IN A PATIENT AFTER ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL

JUN-ICHI IGA 1*, TAKAHIDE TANIGUCHI 1, and TETSURO OHMORI 1

1 Department of Psychiatry, Course of Integrated Brain Sciences, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, 18-15 Kuramoto-cho 3, Tokushima 770-8503, Japan

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
JUN-ICHI IGA, E-mail: igajunichi{at}hotmail.com


  Abstract

Several cases of alcohol-induced bladder dysfunction have been reported previously, but the mechanism of its development is varied and unclear. We report a case of symptomatic abdominal distension due to urinary retention after alcohol withdrawal. The timing of the onset suggests that it was induced by alcohol withdrawal.


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