Table of Contents
- Overview
- Symptoms
- Treatment
- Prevention
- Images
Primary intestinal pseudo-obstruction; Acute colonic ileus; Colonic pseudo-obstruction; Idiopathic intestinal pseudo-obstruction; Ogilvie's syndrome; Chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction
Symptoms
Abdominal pain - Constipation
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Nausea and vomiting - Swollen abdomen (
abdominal distention ) Weight loss
Signs and tests
Signs include:
- Nutritional deficiency
Tests include:
- Abdominal manometry
Abdominal x-ray -
Barium swallow , barium small bowel follow-through, orbarium enema Colonoscopy Esophageal manometry - Gastric emptying radionuclide scan
- Intestinal radionuclide scan
Images
Review Date: 07/07/2010
Reviewed By: David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of
General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington
School of Medicine; and George F. Longstreth, MD, Department of
Gastroenterology, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, San
Diego, California. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical
Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.
A.D.A.M., Inc. is accredited by URAC, also known as the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission (www.urac.org)
