(n.) The abnormal reception or slipping of a part of a tube, by inversion and descent, within a contiguous part of it; specifically, the reception or slipping of the upper part of the small intestine into the lower; introsusception; invagination.
(n.) The interposition of new particles of formative material among those already existing, as in a cell wall, or in a starch grain.
(n.) The act of taking foreign matter, as food, into a living body; the process of nutrition, by which dead matter is absorbed by the living organism, and ultimately converted into the organized substance of its various tissues and organs.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ultrasonography of 4 cases of intussusception in children with proven lead points were reviewed retrospectively.
(2) Two normal variants that could be confused with abnormalities were noted: (a) the featureless appearance of the duodenal bulb may be mistaken for extravasation, and (b) contrastmaterial filling of the proximal jejunal loop at an end-to-end anastomosis with retained invaginated pancreas may be mistaken for intussusception.
(3) In those with poor results, four had complete emptying and three had rectoanal intussusception.
(4) Twenty adults were treated for intussusception in two large hospitals from 1969 to 1988.
(5) An intussusception type antireflux valve in the Roux-en-Y loop was effective for preventing cholangitis; cholangitis developed in none of 8 patients with an anti-reflux valve, whereas cholangitis developed in 25(48%) of recent 52 patients without a valve.
(6) A case of double intussusception through a patent vitello-intestinal duct is reported.
(7) Chronic intussusception is a rare but completely correctable cause of failure to thrive in infants and children.
(8) We report a case of ureteral intussusception owing to well differentiated transitional cell carcinoma.
(9) The case records of 26 horses with ileocecal intussusception over a 7-year period were reviewed to determine clinical features of the disease and response to treatment.
(10) This contrasts with previous reports from Nigeria where intussusception has been presented as being commoner in older children.
(11) Urinary leakage in 3 patients with a right colonic reservoir (2 with an intussuscepted ileal nipple valve and 1 with a plicated ileal segment as a continence mechanism) was managed with tapered narrowing of the nipple valve and the ileocecal valve, respectively, using stapling techniques.
(12) A case of choriocarcinoma presenting as an ileo-ileal intussusception in a sixteen year old girl is presented.
(13) Intussusception may occur as the first indication of tumour recurrence or metastasis, but is more commonly a manifestation of widespread disease.
(14) These marker clips are of great value in the diagnosis of intussusception occurring in the bypassed loop.
(15) The major symptoms of intussusception were bloody diarrhoea (87.17%), vomiting.
(16) Provided that the intussuscepted segment appears viable it seems justified to aim initially to reduce jejuno-gastric intussusception with the aid of the gastroscope.
(17) It was concluded that the intussusception was consequent to hyperperistalsis induced by the coccidial infection of the intestines.
(18) In jejunojejunal and ileoileal intussusceptions, an attempt at primary reduction followed by resection or enterotomy is justified.
(19) We describe a patient with acute retrograde intussusception of the efferent loop into the jejunojejunostomy occurring 14 months after partial gastrectomy with Billroth II anastomosis.
(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.