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| Article | Gender | Age | Illnesses | Symptoms and Signs | Lab Findings/Imaginig Studies |
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| Coprophagia in an 8-Year-Old Hospitalized Patient: A Case Report and Review of the Literature. Bacewicz, et al., 2017. [9] | Male | 8 years old | Feculent emesis of well-formed stool | Oral fixation, immaturity, denied coprophagia | |
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| Coprophagia in an elderly man: a case report and review of the literature. Beck, et al., 2005. [5] | Male | 77 years old | Mild mental retardation, cognitive dysfunction, depression | | |
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| Coprophagic cafè coronary. Byard, et al., 2001. [11] | Male | 74 years old | Multiinfarct dementia and atherosclerosis | Found dead attributed to upper airway obstruction due to a bolus of fecal material impacted within the laryngopharynx | |
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| A case of coprophagia presenting with sialadenitis. Donnellan, et al., 1999. [12] | Female | 94 years old | Dementia and recurrent submandibular sialadenitis secondary to coprophagia | Disoriented, incontinent | Tomography scan of brain: generalized cerebral atrophy |
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| Coprophagic Asphyxation in an Intellectually Disabled Woman. Erickson, et al., 2017. [13] | Female | 36 years old | Intellectual disability, bipolar disorder, schizoaffective disorder, aging disorders | Found dead due to aspiration of stool bolus during an episode of coprophagia | No signs of vitamin, iron, or thiamine deficiency, no abnormal GI and brain findings |
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| Treatment of a retarded child’s faeces smearing and coprophagic behaviour. Friedin, et al., 1979. [14] | Male | 7 years old | Intellectual disability | Incontinence, smearing his own feces, coprophagia | |
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| A clinical study of adult coprophagics. Ghaziuddin, et al., 1985. [15] | 14 patients (2 Male and 12 Female) | Average age was 71. The youngest patient was 61 years old | Epilepsy (2), depression, cerebral atrophy and left hemispheric cognitive dysfunction (1), fluctuating topic confusional states (2) | Speech disturbances (10), wanderers (8), persistent abnormal mouth movements (4), episodically aggressive (6) | Normal thiamine levels |
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| Coprophagia in neurologic disorders. Josephs, et al., 2016. [1] | 12 patients (6 Male and 6 Female) | Average age was 55 (20-88 years) | Neurodegenerative dementia (6), developmental delay(2) seizures (1), steroid psychosis(1), frontal lobe tumor(1), schizoaffective disorder (1) | Fecal smearing (6), aggression (5), hypersexuality(4), pica (4) | Moderate-to-severe medial temporal lobe atrophy and frontal lobe atrophy (6), brain imagining associated with the patient diagnosis (4), brain imaging normal (2) |
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| Coprophagia and urodipsia in a chronic mentally ill woman. McGee, et al., 1989. [4] | Female | Not reported (old) | Residual schizophrenia and depression | Urodipsia | |
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| Aripripazole treatment for coprophagia in autistic disorder. Pardini, et al., 2010. [3] | Male | 29 years old | High functioning autistic spectrum disorder | | Blood studies (including thiamine concentration) and neurological examination were unrevealing |
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| Coprophagia and pica in individuals with mild to moderate dementia and mixed (iron deficiency and microcytic) anemia. Sharma, et al., 2011. [2] | Female | 83 years old | Alzheimer’s disease, major depressive disorder, and mixed (iron deficiency and microcytic) anemia | | |
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| Treatment of coprophagia with carbamazepine. Stewart, 1995. [7] | Male | 46 years old | Left frontotemporal multiform glioblastoma | Severe dementia, global aphasia, hemiparesis, seizure disorder | |
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| Escalation of a fetish: coprophagia in a nonpsychotic adult of normal intelligence. Wise, et al., 1995. [10] | Male | 47 years old | Depression and alcohol abuse | Coprophilia, shame, self-disgust | |
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