(1) Presenting symptoms included: crampy right upper quadrant pain, jaundice, pruritus, cholangitis, pancreatitis, hepatomegaly, and elevated liver function tests.
(2) The alimentary tract manifestations were diverse: symptoms included constipation, diarrhea, difficulty with feeding, projectile vomiting, crampy abdominal pain, and loud borborygmi; findings included thickened lips, nodules on the anterior third of the tongue, abdominal distention, visible peristaltic waves, and roentgenographic evidence of megacolon or diverticulosis of the colon or of dilatation of the small intestine and stomach.
(3) Patients may present with crampy abdominal pain, diarrhea, or cachexia or may present acutely with bowel obstruction or fistula.
(4) Typical symptoms include diarrhea, crampy abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, low-grade fever, gas, malaise, and chills.
(5) The possibility of tetanus should be considered in any nonimmunized postoperative patient who develops crampy abdominal pain, fever, and abdominal wall rigidity.
(6) Patients with symptomatic endometriosis of the colon and distal small bowel usually present with crampy abdominal pain, pelvic and rectal pain, constipation, and dyspareunia.
(7) Shortly after ingestion, he developed crampy abdominal pain and generalized muscle weakness.
(8) Gastrointestinal involvement may present clinically with fever, intractable diarrhea, and crampy abdominal pain.
(9) Infected children may have acute or chronic diarrhea, crampy abdominal pain, anorexia, malasorption and poor weight gain and may be misdiagnosed as celiac disease.
(10) The clinical features are nonspecific and can vary from mild crampy abdominal pain to severe shock.
(11) The most common clinical picture is crampy abdominal pain and abdominal distention.
(12) Features of malabsorption were observed in 12% of cases and 8% presented with acute illness, having explosive, watery, foul smelling diarrhoea along with crampy upper abdominal discomfort.
(13) The onset of crampy abdominal pain (median: 3 vs 4 days) and vaginal bleeding (3 vs 3 days) was similar in the RU486 and RU486 + PG groups, respectively.
(14) The concept of appendiceal colic was introduced in 1980 to explain the common problem of recurrent crampy abdominal pain (RAP) in children.
(15) A 37-yr-old white man experienced crampy abdominal pain beginning 21 days after successful bone marrow transplantation for chronic myelogenous leukemia.
(16) Symptoms include crampy abdominal pain, diarrhea, nasopharyngeal ulcers, and rectal ulcers.
(17) Crampy abdominal pain and vaginal bleeding started after 275 and 756 minutes respectively.
(18) Six of seven patients with small-bowel bezoars had acute small-bowel obstruction, manifested by crampy abdominal pain, vomiting and obstipation.
(19) Among the 17 patients who had had symptomatic colonoscopy-documented ulcerative colitis at time of liver transplantation, 88.2% reported improvement in overall ulcerative colitis severity (P less than 0.001), with significant improvement in the frequency of bowel movements reported by 100%, in crampy abdominal pain by 87.5%, in bowel urgency by 75%, in the occurrence of pus or mucus in stool by 87.5%, in the incidence of ulcerative colitis flares by 81.8%, and in the number of days unable to function normally due to ulcerative colitis symptoms by 78.6% (all at least P less than 0.01).
(20) A 79-year-old man with a permanent pacemaker presented on five separate occasions to the emergency department with recurrent episodes of crampy abdominal pain.