Incidence, Nature and Outcome ofEmergencyNeonatal Intestinal Obstruction, Egypt.

Intestinal Obstruction- Etiological and Treatment Outcome

Background: To study the causes of intestinal obstruction with regards to symptoms,duration of symptoms and subsequent management. Methods: This observational study included 120 consecutive patients with clinical symptoms and signs of intestinal obstruction along with abdominal radiographic findings consistent with mechanical intestinal obstruction or those verified at operation subsequently to...

Is Meconium Obstruction Distinguishable from Intestinal Obstruction through Ultrasound?

Background: Since the treatment of meconium ileus is very different from other types of intestinal obstruction, it is very important to distinguish these two entities. The aim of this study was to assess sonographic findings to differentiate meconium ileus from other types of obstruction. Methods: This study was performed in Dr. Sheikh and Akbar hospitals, Mashhad Medical University of Science...

Constipation and Intestinal Obstruction

This volume forms a very complete and interesting treatise on its subject. After passing in review the anatomy and phj'siology of the bowel, and particularly of the rectum, the aetiology of constipation is fully considered ; and then, with equal fullness, its symptoms and diagnosis. Considerably more than half the book is devoted to treatment, described under the heads of educational ; psychic ...

Intestinal Obstruction

Dogs may be immunized against lethal doses of the duodenal loop poison by means of small doses of the loop fluid from dog or cat and by material obtained from human cases of intestinal obstruction. The immunity is transient and may disappear within a few weeks. Dogs immunized by repeated doses of loop fluid show a definite resistance against the intoxication of a closed duodenal loop and may su...

Intestinal Obstruction and Ileus