Appendicitis as a rare cause of mechanical small-bowel obstruction: A literature review of case reports

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00179906:_____/16:10335089

Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijscr.2016.10.065" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.ijscr.2016.10.065</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Appendicitis as a rare cause of mechanical small-bowel obstruction: A literature review of case reports

Original language description

INTRODUCTION: Although bowel paralysis accompanying acute appendicitis is well known, mechanical bowel obstruction as a direct consequence of appendicitis remains a rare, but potentially life-threatening, acute abdomen. The aim of our literature review was to find all documented cases of this particular complication and compare them with our own case study. METHODS: We searched the PubMed database for relevant articles published from 1963 to 2015. The study included patients for whom direct links between appendicitis and strangulation of the terminal ileum were found, and for which the disease course had been documented in detail. The study also included our own case report since it met the inclusion criteria. A total of 190 articles were examined with a final yield of 17 case reports from 13 articles. RESULTS: 17 patients (11 men and 6 women), with a mean age of 48 +/- 23.9 years, met the inclusion criteria. The average period between symptom onset and surgery was 3.4 +/- 3.7 days. Symptoms of the disease were consistent with small-bowel obstruction. Treatment included simple appendectomy (n = 7), possibly supplemented by segmental resection (n = 5), followed by ileocecal resection (n = 4), and one case that required a right-sided hemicolectomy (n = 1). CONCLUSION: We found mechanical bowel obstruction directly related to appendiceal inflammation to be extremely rare, and relatively few individual cases involving this potentially life-threatening complication have been documented in the literature. Clinical signs of the disease are variable, non-uniform, and consistent with symptoms of small-bowel obstruction during their progression. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of IJS Publishing Group Ltd.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

FJ - Surgery including transplantology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

International Journal of Surgery Case Reports

ISSN

2210-2612

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

29

Issue of the periodical within the volume

October

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

5

Pages from-to

180-184

UT code for WoS article

000390020900046

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