BACKGROUND The aim of this report was to describe duodenal obstruction caused by a rubber foreign body in a cow. CASE PRESENTATION The clinical, biochemical and ultrasonographic findings in a five-year-old Swiss Braunvieh cow with duodenal ileus caused by a calf feeding nipple are described. The main clinical signs were anorexia, ruminal tympany, decreased faecal output and abomasal reflux sy...

BACKGROUND Intestinal obstruction is a poorly recognized and probably underreported complication of strongyloidiasis. We present herein an unusual case, of complete duodenal obstruction caused by S. stercoralis. METHODS A systematic review of the literature examining the clinical course, diagnostic methods, and outcome of this rare complication of strongyloidiasis was performed. RESULTS A 4...

Intestinal obstruction is a common complication in patients with advanced gastrointestinal malignancies. In the last two decades, endoscopic placement of duodenal stents has become a mainstay of palliative treatment in patients with unresectable obstructive duodenal pathology. Self-expandable metal stents have been reported to have excellent success rates, besides dramatically improve the patie...

Reid, I. S. (1973). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 48, 952. Biliary tract abnormalities associated with duodenal atresia. The embryology of the duodenum and biliary tracts makes understandable those developmental abnormalities of the biliary tract that occur in association with duodenal atresia. In a series of 167 patients with intrinsic duodenal obstruction, a number also showed anomalies o...

Duodenal atresia occurs in approximately 1:10.000 live births. The outcome of congenital duodenal obstructions, in terms of mortality rate, has improved over the last decades, mainly attributable to the improvement in the quality of prenatal diagnosis and neonatal intensive care. Nevertheless, several cases of sudden intrauterine fetal death (IUFD) in fetuses with duodenal obstruction have been...

introduction: cholestasis is impairment of normal bile excretion into the duodenum and classified as mechanical and non mechanical cholestasis. mechanical cholestasis presents with increase in bile duct diameter or obstruction in bile duct in an ercp. cholestasis leads to different complications. one of these complications is mucosal peptic erosion leading to gastrointestinal bleeding, perforat...

In the past 31 years, 47 cases of duodenal obstruction were admitted to the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children. Thirty-six per cent of these had Down's syndrome. The crude mortality was 48% but this figure was reduced to 33% in the last five years of the study. The combination of duodenal obstruction, Down's syndrome and any other abnormality carried an 89% risk of mortality.