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Friday, 19 October 2012

Chronic Idiopathic Intestinal Pseudo-obstruction

Intestinal disorder that mimic intestinal obstruction in absance of mechanical blockage.
Low prevalence < 1 in 2000

this exclude the following conditions:
mechanical obstruction: adhesions, volvulus
colonic pseudo-obstruction:Ogilivie's syndromw
acute adynamic status: ileus
secondary pseudo-obstruction: scleroderma, paraneoplastic, IDDM, radiation, amyloid.

symptoms:
abdominal pain, distention, epidodic N/V, severe constipation, diarrhea, Wt loos.

investigation:
exclude secondary causes
small bowel manometry
full thickness biopsy

treatment:
nutrition (entral/ parentral)
analgesia
prokinatics
antibiotics
immunotherpy
sutgery in selected cases
psychlogical support
palliative care






2 comments:

  1. The mechanisms proposed for acute pseudo-obstruction include:
    (1) reflex motor inhibition through splanchnic afferents in response to noxious stimuli,
    (2) excess sympathetic (inhibitory) motor input to the gut,
    (3) excess parasympathetic (excitatory) motor input to the gut, (4) decreased parasympathetic (excitatory) motor input to the gut,
    (5) excess stimulation of peripheral mu-opioid receptors by endogenous or exogenous opioids, and
    (6) inhibition of nitric oxide release from inhibitory motoneurons.

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