Small Bowel Ischemia due to Jejunum Volvulus in Pregnancy: A Case Report

The diagnosis of intestinal obstruction in pregnancy is difficult, as the symptoms may mimic pregnancy-associated complaints. The surgical management is challenging, as the mortality rate of midgut volvulus in pregnancy is high. We report the case of a 35-year-old woman at 21 weeks and 5 days of ges...

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Autores principales: Vassiliou, Ioannis, Tympa, Aliki, Derpapas, Michalis, Kottis, Georgios, Vlahos, Nikolaos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3530760/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23304583
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/485863
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author Vassiliou, Ioannis
Tympa, Aliki
Derpapas, Michalis
Kottis, Georgios
Vlahos, Nikolaos
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description The diagnosis of intestinal obstruction in pregnancy is difficult, as the symptoms may mimic pregnancy-associated complaints. The surgical management is challenging, as the mortality rate of midgut volvulus in pregnancy is high. We report the case of a 35-year-old woman at 21 weeks and 5 days of gestation with small bowel obstruction who presented to our institution with a 24 h history of colicky abdominal pain and nausea and who finally had a successful open repair.
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spelling pubmed-35307602013-01-09 Small Bowel Ischemia due to Jejunum Volvulus in Pregnancy: A Case Report Vassiliou, Ioannis Tympa, Aliki Derpapas, Michalis Kottis, Georgios Vlahos, Nikolaos Case Rep Obstet Gynecol Case Report The diagnosis of intestinal obstruction in pregnancy is difficult, as the symptoms may mimic pregnancy-associated complaints. The surgical management is challenging, as the mortality rate of midgut volvulus in pregnancy is high. We report the case of a 35-year-old woman at 21 weeks and 5 days of gestation with small bowel obstruction who presented to our institution with a 24 h history of colicky abdominal pain and nausea and who finally had a successful open repair. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-12-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3530760/ /pubmed/23304583 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/485863 Text en Copyright © 2012 Ioannis Vassiliou et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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