PURPOSE I introduce the use of transanal intestinal long tube (TILT) using nasogastric tube. TILT passes from anus to the anastomosis, helping to decompress a dilated bowel loop. METHODS TILT procedure was limited to those patients predicting a severe luminal size discrepancy after intestinal anastomosis, and who had postoperative prolonged ileus. We retrospectively reviewed the medical recor...

Kobayashi, A., Utsunomiya, T., Ohbe, Y., and Nagashima, Y. (1974). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 49, 90. Intestinal absorption of calcium and magnesium in hepatobiliary disease in infancy. The intestinal absorption of calcium and magnesium was measured by metabolic balance studies in 6 normal infants, 13 infants with biliary atresia, 5 infants with successfully repaired biliary atresia, 7 i...

Background. Intestinal atresia refers to complete obstruction or partial stenosis of the intestinal lumen. Prevalence is 1/4000-5000 births, without gender predilection. When the blockage is incomplete, signs such as vomiting, abdominal distension, and constipation may occur shortly after birth or delayed in an unspecified manner. In intestinal atresia, the challenge may not be significant; how...

Background Failure to pass meconium by a full-term neonate within the first 24 hours should raise a suspicion of bowel obstruction. The objective of this study was to determine pattern of presentation, diagnosis and outcome of management of intestinal obstruction in the early neonatal period in the Neonatal Care Unit of Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Methods Retr...

Atresia of ileocecal junction and isolated atresia of ileocecal valve are rare types of intestinal atresia with very few reports in literature. We report two such cases. Radiology showed dilated ileal segment and distal micro colon in both the cases. At laparotomy there was atresia of ileocecal junction in the first case and isolated ileocaecal valve atresia with normal ileocecal junction in th...

Most babies begin to take milk feeds within two or three days of birth and thereafter their intakes of milk steadily increase during the first week and a large proportion of the materials they derive from the digestion of such feeds is retained. This normal process may be hindered by the repeated vomiting exhibited by some premature babies, in the absence of any apparent organic cause except th...

Intestinal obstructions resulting from various causes such as Hirschsprung disease, intestinal atresia, meconium ileus, and intussusception are not uncommon in the neonatal period 1, 2) . Most of the intestinal obstructions in the pediatric population result from postoperative adhesion or postinflammatory adhesions or stenosis 5) . However, small bowel obstruction caused by an anomalous congeni...

Nous presentons le cas d'un jeune homme de 25 ans qui s·est presente a notre service avec le symptomatologie de !'abdomen aigue. Les investiga­tions preoperatoire ne montrent pas J'etiologie de son etat.  A.laparotomie on trouve une tumeur polypeuse (Lymphangiome) de la muqueuse jejunale causant l'invagination et la necrose de la paroi intestinale.