Background: Across all age ranges, one in a thousand people is diagnosed with ileus annually. Ileus categorized into two types, obstructive ileus, and paralytic ileus. Obstructive condition where intestinal passage disorder occurs as result of mechanical blockage. There are 7,024 without hernia Indonesia 7,059 cases 2004.Purpose: To understand the comparison characteristics patients.Method: Thi...

Myocytes are nonhemopoietic in origin and functionally essential in generating gastrointestinal motility. In endotoxemia, a rapid-onset nonhemopoietic mechanism potently triggers early ileus in a Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4)/myeloid differentiation primary response gene 88 (MyD88)-dependent manner. Moreover, synergistically with hemopoietic cells, nonhemopoietic cells escalate late ileus via an ...

Platypnea in a patient with COPD developed during the subacute onset of an ileus. Arterial blood gas studies failed to document orthodeoxia. Routine treatment for COPD failed to resolve the patient's positional dyspnea, but the dyspnea rapidly resolved following resolution of the ileus. The authors postulate that impaired abdominal muscle contraction in the upright position secondary to the ile...

Gallstone ileus is an uncommon complication of cholelithiasis, usually associated with an internal biliary fistula. Management of gallstone ileus is surgical with enterolithotomy the procedure of choice, followed by fistula closure either as a one or two stage procedure. In this case a 66 year old female presented with colicky abdominal pain, computed tomography (CT) clearly showing a gallstone...

The objective of the present study was to determine the possible prognostic factors which may explain the difference in the survival of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) with and without meconium ileus. Over a period of 20 years, 127 patients with CF, whose diagnosis was confirmed by typical clinical characteristics and altered sweat chloride levels, were studied retrospectively. The patients ...

INTRODUCTION Gallstone ileus represents 4% of the causes of bowel obstruction in the general population, but increases to 25% in patients above the age of 65 years. Gallstone ileus does not present with unique symptoms, making diagnosis difficult. Its management is surgical, but there is no consensus as to which of the different surgical techniques is the procedure of choice. At present, there ...

AIM To retrospectively establish the diagnostic criteria of gallstone ileus on CT, and to prospectively apply these criteria to determine the diagnostic accuracy of CT to confirm or exclude gallstone ileus in patients who presented with acute small bowel obstruction (SBO). Another purpose was to ascertain whether the size of ectopic gallstones would affect treatment strategy. METHODS Fourteen...

Gallstone ileus is an uncommon cause of small bowel obstruction, mainly affecting elderly patients. The most common cause is impaction of a stone in the ileum after passing through a biliary-enteric fistula (1). Jejunal perforation is a rare complication of gallstone ileus. We present a case of jejunal diverticular perforation secondary to gallstone ileus, produced by diverticulum wall necrosis...

Ileus is defined as the functional inhibition of propulsive bowel activity, irrespective of pathologic mechanisms. It is commonly associated with long-term opioid use and results often in debilitating constipation. Postoperative ileus (POI) is the transient cessation of coordinated bowel motility after surgical intervention, which prevents effective transit of intestinal contents and/or toleran...