(n.) A morbid condition due to intestinal obstruction. It is characterized by complete constipation, with griping pains in the abdomen, which is greatly distended, and in the later stages by vomiting of fecal matter. Called also ileac, / iliac, passion.
Example Sentences:
(1) The combination of an over-distended uterus caused by a multiple-fetus pregnancy with therapeutic bed-rest may cause mechanical ileus.
(2) Two of the ten patients developed mild symptoms of (sub)ileus that could be treated conservatively.
(3) The diagnosis of a small intestinal obstruction was made prenatally between the 31st and 36th week of pregnancy in 7 patients with neonatal ileus.
(4) Compared with conventional surgery, the advantages of laparoscopic cholecystectomy are well known: the entire peritoneal cavity is explored; the lack of postoperative ileus makes it possible to resume normal feeding, and hence normal activity, after a short interruption; systemic and parietal complications are less frequent, but the biliary tract complication rate is higher, probably in relation to the operator's training.
(5) The patient subsequently developed paralytic ileus with lesions of the intestinal wall, probably based on ischemia as a result of this arteritis.
(6) Postoperative ileus, nausea, vomiting, and urinary retention were the most common surgical complications.
(7) Adrenoceptor blockade in untreated rats reduced the ileus in response to peritoneal irritation to approximately the same degree as treatment with capsaicin.
(8) Their courses were characterized by significant early postoperative hemodynamic compromise, abdominal distention, ileus, fever, and episodes of late vascular instability associated with hypocalcemia.
(9) Three patients with chronic diarrhoea, paralytic ileus and malabsorption are reported.
(10) Ileus was detected by means of general abdominal sonography from three of 14 of the authors' own patients from whom negative findings had been recorded by X-ray examinations.
(11) The goal of treating postoperative ileus must be decompression of the intestine in order to prevent further development of the disease.
(12) Six cases of lung cancer combined with the disease which has needed semi-emergency operation, two cases of unstable angina, two of ileus due to colon cancer, one of impending rupture of abdominal aortic aneurysm and one of purulent cholecystitis with cholelithiasis, were discussed.
(13) As in other published cases of ileus associated with pheochromocytoma, high urinary catecholamine concentrations were found in our patient and the tumor resected at surgery was large.
(14) Patients were evaluated for length of hospital stay, duration of postoperative ileus, adequacy of intraoperative intestinal decompression, gastric dilatation, and operative complications.
(15) Of the remaining 16 patients with unresolved meconium ileus, nine were treated with laparotomy and ileostomy, and one with laparotomy and T-tube irrigation.
(16) Preventive intestinal intubation for ileus prophylaxis in cases of diffuse peritonitis and extended adhesion ileus had often been discredited for the technically demanding and thus time-consuming technique involved.
(17) The most frequent complication was paralytic intestinal ileus.
(18) Aetiopathogenesis, diagnosis as well as typical and atypical courses are described and discussed with regard to 50 patients with gallstone ileus.
(19) He developed stress ulcers, pulmonary thromboembolism, sepsis, paralytic ileus and bilateral ureteral fistula.
(20) The duration of epidural analgesia varied between 1 and 15 days depending on the intensity of symptoms (pain, ileus).
Volvulus
Definition:
(n.) The spasmodic contraction of the intestines which causes colic.
(n.) Any twisting or displacement of the intestines causing obstruction; ileus. See Ileus.
Example Sentences:
(1) Forty-six percent of the plain abdominal radiographs were suspected for cecal volvulus, but only 17 percent were diagnostic.
(2) The instrumental treatment of the volvulus of the sigma prevents surgical interventions under unfavourable conditions for the patient.
(3) Gastric volvulus is an uncommon condition in which an acquired torsion of the stomach results in acute or chronic gastrointestinal symptoms.
(4) Gastric drainage procedures are commonly used in veterinary medicine, particularly in dogs in attempts to prevent recurrence of gastric dilatation-volvulus (GDV).
(5) The concentrations of CGP 6140 [4-nitro-4'-(N-methyl-piperazinylthiocarbonylamido)-diphenylamine] and of its N-oxide metabolite, CGP 13,231, were measured in plasma and urine after single oral dose of 100-1600 mg of CGP 6140 to 41 fasted Ghanaian patients with Onchocerca volvulus infections.
(6) The average number of infective larvae of O. volvulus per infective fly was 2.6 and 2.2 during the rainy and dry seasons respectively.
(7) Also, during prepatency the granulocyte and antibody-mediated in vitro killing of microfilariae of O. volvulus increased in subsequently patent chimpanzees.
(8) Patients with sigmoid volvulus with no clinical evidence of gangrene were selected for study, and all were given a trial of non-operative reduction by proctoscopy and passage of a rectal tube.
(9) A case of sigmoid volvulus in pregnancy with a rare successful conclusion by conservative management is described and discussed, with a review of the literature.
(10) The Michaelis constants for PEP, GDP and KHCO3 of the PEP-carboxykinase from O. volvulus were determined to be 0.16 mM, 0.15 mM and 20 mM, respectively; those of the enzyme from O. gibsoni were 0.16 mM, 0.13 mM and 12 mM.
(11) An anomaly of the position of the midgut in a pregnant woman predisposes to volvulus.
(12) Experiments were carried out to see whether antigenic diversity among Ochocerca volvulus worms might contribute to these features.
(13) In all infected chimpanzees the in vitro cellular reactivity to O. volvulus adult worm-derived Ag (OvAg) increased significantly after exposure to third-stage larvae.
(14) Usual complications are a perforation of ectopic gastric mucosa (possibly with intestinal bleeding), an invagination and a volvulus.
(15) Recoveries of O. volvulus L4 larvae from chambers given to normal or T-cell deprived mice were equivalent to one another and to those obtained with O. lienalis.
(16) To identify possible immune mechanisms in human onchocerciasis, we compared a group of 12 individuals who had no clinical or parasitological evidence of infection, despite ongoing exposure to the parasite, with a group of 16 individuals from the same area who had active Onchocerca volvulus infection.
(17) Total gastrectomy is rarely indicated in childhood and when necessary it involves multiple ulterior therapeutic problems, mainly nutritional, which need a meticulous physiological approach to avoid further complications, as illustrated by the following patient who, at age 15 months, was submitted to total gastric resection, Y en Roux esophagojejunal anastomosis and splenectomy, because of peritonitis secondary to dehiscence of a recent esophagogastric anastomosis for partial gastric resection due to gastric volvulus and necrosis, which in turn were associated to diaphragmatic relaxation.
(18) In the case of filarial worms, MBP is deposited on degenerating microfilariae (mf) of Onchocerca volvulus.
(19) The effect of two new filaricidal compounds, CGP 6140 and CGP 20376, on the microfilariae of O. volvulus was tested in vitro.
(20) Increased colonic fluid and electrolyte secretion was caused by intermittent sigmoid volvulus and resulted in chronic secretory diarrhea.