Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) is a recurrent disease characterized by inflammatory process effecting synovial membranes such as peritoneum, pericardium and joints. It usually presents with acute abdominal pain. Intestinal obstruction secondary to adhesions may be observed in FMF patients. Sometimes diagnosing intestinal obstruction can be a challenging problem. We were presented a patient ...

Caecal volvulus is very rare causa of the intestinal obstruction. It ocures in 1- 1,5% of all intestinal obstructions. It is known that there is only on treatment in this situation which is surgery. It is classified as an obstruction because of strangulation.We present a case of the 46 year old patient, who was operated because of intestinal obstruction. During the operation caecal volvulus has...

A full term neonatal baby girl presented with a lumbosacral meningomyelocele and underwent successful excision and repair. In the postoperative period, she developed abdominal distension, bilious vomiting and did not pass stools. Conservative management for ileus/intestinal obstruction failed. The abdominal exploration revealed milk curd syndrome (MCS) as a cause of intestinal obstruction. This...

Intestinal pseudo-obstruction is a condition in which the intestine's ability to push food through is reduced. It often leads to the dilation of the various parts of the bowel. It can be idiopathic or inherited from a parent, or caused by another disease. We report a rare case of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in a 3-year-old boy who referred with acute abdominal pain, and was lat...

The primary report of intussusception was made in 1674 by Barbette Amsterdam. It increases the patient's risk intestinal obstruction, parietal ischemia, perforation, and peritonitis. Small submucosal lipomas are an uncommon kind gastrointestinal tumour. is a silent disease that occasionally causes haemorrhage, intussusception, bowel obstruction. Surgery frequently required to confirm diagnosis ...

The Authors Reply Thank you for your letter regarding our case report of three patients harboring the mitochondrial DNA A3243G (m.3243A>G) mutation, which manifested as chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction (1). The pathophysiology of chronic intestinal pseudoobstruction caused by the m.3243A>G mutation was uncertain, and the presence of either myenteric plexus neuropathy or visceral myopathy w...

Gallstone ileus, a mechanical intestinal obstruction caused by the passage of a gallstone into the intestinal lumen through a fistula, although not common, deserves to more carefully studied due to its morbidity and mortality. Its incidence among older-age groups explains its association with chronic and degenerative diseases, which increase the complexity of the treatment choice. The need and ...

Phytobezoar presenting as acute intestinal obstruction is extremely rare in clinical practice and causing terminal ileum obstruction is still rarer. We report a case of middle aged female who presented with intestinal obstruction due to impacted phytobezoar in terminal ileum. Emergency exploratory laparotomy was performed and large phytobezoar found impacted in terminal ileum, which was compres...

An obstructed inguinal hernia is a common surgical emergency, which presents with a variety of contents like the small intestine, omentum, and colon. Intestinal knotting is a rare entity encountered in surgical practice; it occurs when one coil of intestine wraps around the other and eventually leads to complications such as intestinal obstruction, ischemia, and gangrene. Both conditions are co...

AbstractPrimary enterolithiasis is a rare surgical ailment. The underlying cause is intestinal stasis. Numerous anatomical and micro environmental factors such as enteritis, incarcerated hernia, malignancy, diverticula, blind loops, and enteroenterostomy predispose to clinically significant concretions. Enterolithiasis in tuberculosis can be due to the presence of strictures, intestinal bands, ...