Fetal intestinal volvulus is a rare life-threatening condition. Late diagnosis of volvulus contributes to high rate of morbidity and mortality. It has variable degrees of presentation and survival. Intrauterine volvulus may be complicated by intestinal atresia due to ischemic necrosis. To our knowledge, there are three reported cases of term fetal demise. We report a case of fetal intestinal vo...

Idiopathic small bowel volvulus is a rare cause of acute intestinal obstruction by strangulation in adults and defined the twisting segment around its mesenteric axis with no obvious underlying congenital or acquired cause.
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BACKGROUND In Africa, acute intestinal obstruction accounts for a great proportion of morbidity and mortality. Ethiopia is one of the countries where intestinal obstruction is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. This study aims to determine prevalence, causes and management outcome of intestinal obstruction in Adama Hospital in Oromia region, Ethiopia. METHOD A hospital based cross-sect...

BACKGROUND We present a case of spontaneus small bowel volvulus in an adult patients who presented to the emergency department. In this case we had no obvious precipitating factors. AIMS A man of 72 years, was transferred to our hospital after being examined and diagnosed with acute pain. Over the past two years has had four episodes of sharp epigastric pain radiating to the back half with as...