About half of all Crohn's patients require surgery at some point to remove intestinal obstructions or repair holes in the bowel.
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Often, they present with a varying degree of complication ranging from irreducibility through intestinal obstruction to frank gangrene of contained bowel.
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These procedures can be considered to improve symptoms and reduce complications such as bleeding from the tumor, abdominal pain and intestinal obstruction.
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He appears to have been successful in general, but on one occasion the act went wrong and he suffered severe intestinal obstruction.
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An operation in March 1918 to remove an intestinal obstruction appeared to progress well at first, but then he suffered heart failure.
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A delay in diagnosis and treatment of an intestinal obstruction can result in a ruptured bowel, which can be fatal, he said.
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Differentiation between proximal enteritis and small intestinal obstruction is important to ensure correct treatment, and can be assisted with the help of ultrasound.
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Horses with small intestinal obstruction will usually have an intestinal diameter of " 10 cm with a wall thickness of 3 5mm.
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Unlike actual intestinal obstructions, which often can be removed, a pseudo-obstruction prevents food from passing through even though there is no physical barrier.
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Sigmoid volvulus is the most-common form of volvulus of the gastrointestinal tract . and is responsible for 8 % of all intestinal obstructions.
