[Ogilvie syndrome]

Ogilvie's syndrome, or acute colonic pseudo-obstruction, is clinically impossible to differentiate from mechanical colonic ileus. Ogilvie's syndrome is associated with several conditions but the most common associated factor is surgery. Earlier, coecostomi or colostomy was the treatment of choice but most experts will agree that, although several methods of treatment have been proposed, the one now to be preferred is deflation by a colonoscope.