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Updated: Oct 1 2019

Small Bowel Obstruction

  • Snapshot
    • A 50-year-old woman presents to the emergency room for nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, and abdominal pain. She has a history of Crohn disease, on infliximab, but she reports that this did not feel like a flare of her disease. On physical exam, there is tenderness to palpation of her abdomen without any peritoneal signs. An abdominal radiograph shows dilated loops of small bowel. She is started on intravenous fluids, given anti-emetics, and put on bowel rest.
  • Complications
    • Bowel necrosis
    • Peritonitis
    • Bowel perforation
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