Diagnostic and emergency assistance to the syndrome of "acute abdomen"

ACUTE INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION

• ACUTE INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION
• Acute intestinal obstruction  (AIO) - violation of passage of intestinal contents through the digestive tract.
• ETIOLOGY AND PATHOGENESIS
• The etiology of AIO:
• adhesions after previous abdominal surgery;
• strangulation, volvulus bowel intussusception;
• Closing the intestinal lumen (tumor, feces or gallstones, foreign bodies, the accumulation of round worm);
• wrapping intestine (strictures, stenoses);
• compression of the intestine from the outside (tumors of other organs);
• infringement by a hernia;
• endogenous intestinal dysmotility (neurogenic, vascular or metabolic) nature of patients with myocardial infarction, acute pancreatitis, renal colic, etc., as well as exogenous nature (drug or food poisoning, abdominal trauma).