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The condition is not usually immediately life-threatening. The intussusception can be treated with either a barium or water-soluble contrast enema or an air-contrast enema, which both confirms the diagnosis of intussusception, and in most cases successfully reduces it. [14] The success rate is over 80%.
By intussusception a new blood vessel is created by splitting of an existing blood vessel in two. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Intussusception occurs in normal development as well as in pathologic conditions involving wound healing, [ 4 ] tissue regeneration, inflammation as colitis [ 5 ] [ 6 ] or myocarditis, [ 7 ] lung fibrosis, [ 8 ] and tumors [ 9 ...
A CT scan revealed intussusception, a rare disorder in which part of the large intestine telescopes into itself, cutting off blood flow. During emergency surgery, doctors discovered a benign tumor ...
Ventral rectopexy is a surgical procedure for external rectal prolapse, internal rectal prolapse (rectal intussusception), and sometimes other conditions such as rectocele, obstructed defecation syndrome, or solitary rectal ulcer syndrome.
Rectocele and recto-rectal intussusception can sometimes be treated by pelvic floor rehabilitation alone, [23] as long as they have not been present for a long time. [23] Larger and more significant examples of these organic/anatomical disorders require surgery to correct since they because contributing causes to ODS by themselves. [ 23 ]
Intussusception may refer to: Intussusception (medical disorder) Intussusception (blood vessel growth) Rectal prolapse#Internal rectal intussusception
Volvulus can also occur in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy due to smooth muscle dysfunction. [citation needed] Gastric volvulus causes nausea, vomiting, and pain in the upper abdomen. The Borchardt triad is a group of symptoms that help doctors to identify gastric volvulus.
Dance's sign is an eponymous medical sign first described by the French pathologist Jean Baptiste Hippolyte Dance, requiring investigation of the right lower quadrant of the abdomen for retraction of the right iliac fossa, which can indicate an intussusception.