Gallstone ileus. A gallstone ileus, as with meconium ileus, is an actual physical obstruction. It's very rare and happens when a gallstone travels from the gallbladder into the intestine.

"In 85% of patients with gallstone ileus, gallstones travel through a cholecystoduodenal fistula into the duodenum, and 15% have a fistula that involves the stomach, small bowel, or transverse colon." ...

THE combination of gallstone ileus, volvulus of the small intestine, incarcerated femoral hernia and diffuse peritonitis is sufficiently unusual to warrant a report. The probable sequence of events ...

Gallstone ileus is a rare complication of gallstone disease. A small-bowel obstruction results after 1 or more gallstones migrate through a cholecystoenteric fistula.1 Elderly women are more likely ...

Gallstone ileus is characterized by occlusion of the intestinal lumen as a result of one or more gallstones, whereas meconium ileus represents the obstruction of the terminal ileum by the ...

Gallstone ileus—a mechanical bowel obstruction caused by the displacement of a gallstone from the bile ducts or the gallbladder via the biliary enteric fistula to the gastrointestinal tract—accounts ...

Gallstone ileus. Gallstone ileus is rare but can be fatal. It occurs when a gallstone migrates to the intestine and blocks it. Sometimes, a gallstone passes out through the rectum without a person ...

If a person does not receive treatment for it, chronic cholecystitis may result in complications such as infection, gallstone ileus, abscesses, fistulas, and potentially gallbladder cancer.

Complications may include gallbladder perforation, gangrene, emphysematous cholecystitis, ascending cholangitis, gallstone ileus, choledocholithiasis, and gallstone-induced pancreatitis. [ 6 ] ...

Ileus is not a good gut feeling to have. And on September 22, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration added ileus—which can result in intestinal blockage—as a possible serious adverse event to ...