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Digestive & GastrointestinalSevere
Intestinal Obstruction
General Surgery · Digestive & Gastrointestinal
Severe
Severity
Common cause of emergency surgical admission, particularly in patients with prior abdominal surgery
Prevalence
No
Contagious
General Surgery
Specialist
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1Common mechanical causes include adhesions or scar tissue from previous abdominal surgery
- 2hernias
- 3tumors
- 4and volvulus (twisting of the bowel)
- 5while functional obstruction can occur from post-surgical bowel paralysis
- 6electrolyte imbalance
- 7or certain medications. Risk factors include prior abdominal surgery
- 8inflammatory bowel disease
- 9and advanced age. Inflammation
- 10adhesions
- 11or a foreign body physically narrowing the bowel lumen are the underlying mechanism in most mechanical cases.
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