| 11. | Perforation into an adjacent viscus may produce a cholecystenteric fistula and may lead to gallstone ileus.
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| 12. | The reason for that decision was her mother, who had almost died because of an ileus.
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| 13. | The differential for low obstruction is ileal atresia, meconium ileus, meconium plug syndrome and Hirschsprung disease.
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| 14. | In many cases, opioids used in general anaesthesia can cause postoperative ileus, even after non-abdominal surgery.
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| 15. | Sounds of gas can occur with ileus, and those of fluid are associated with diarrhea which may occur with colitis.
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| 16. | It is currently only Food and Drug Administration approved for the treatment of postoperative ileus which it received in May 2008.
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| 17. | In barium enema, meconium plug syndrome rather shows normal or dilated colon as compared to micro-colon in meconium ileus.
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| 18. | Administration of a ?-opioid antagonist such as alvimopan immediately after surgery can help reduce the severity and duration of ileus.
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| 19. | Radiographs studies may show free air in the peritoneal cavity, evidence of ileus or obstruction and obliteration of the psoas shadow.
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| 20. | Causes of constipation may include faecal impaction and bowel obstruction, which may in turn be caused by ileus, intussusception, volvulus.
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