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Murine Ileocolic Bowel Resection with Primary Anastomosis
Published on: October 29, 2014
Nontraumatic terminal ileal perforation
Rauf A Wani1, Fazl Q Parray, Nadeem A Bhat
1Department of General Surgery, Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar, Kashmir, India. raufw64@hotmail.com.
Background:
There is still confusion and controversy over the diagnosis and optimal surgical treatment of non traumatic terminal ileal perforation-a cause of obscure peritonitis.
Methods:
This study was a prospective study aimed at evaluating the clinical profile, etiology and optimal surgical management of patients with nontraumatic terminal ileal perforation.
Results:
There were 79 cases of nontraumatic terminal ileal perforation; the causes for perforation were enteric fever(62%), nonspecific inflammation(26%), obstruction(6%), tuberculosis(4%) and radiation enteritis (1%). Simple closure of the perforation (49%) and end to side ileotransverse anastomosis(42%) were the mainstay of the surgical management.
Conclusion:
Terminal ileal perforation should be suspected in all cases of peritonitis especially in developing countries and surgical treatment should be optimized taking various accounts like etiology, delay in surgery and operative findings into consideration to reduce the incidence of deadly complications like fecal fistula.
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