Ileus: When your colon can't move to push food and waste out of your body, it’s called ileus. Learn causes, symptoms, and treatments of this condition.

About half of patients with gallstone ileus have no history of gallbladder disease, and women account for 72-90% of cases of gallstone ileus.

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 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 ...

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, a rare complication of chole-lithiasis, is caused by intestinal impaction of a gallstone that has migrated through a cholecystoenteric fistula. Mortality is high, up to 22.7%, 1 ...

Gallbladder problems include gallstones, infections, and blockages. There are different types of problems, but common symptoms include pain in the upper abdomen, nausea, vomiting, and jaundice.

Due to the symptoms of ileus, a native computed tomography had been performed as part of the on-site emergency response.

Conclusion Gallstone ileus is a disease of elderly females associated with nonspecific abdominal symptoms such as pain, vomiting and constipation.

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

Abdominal surgery was necessary in one patient in the top-down group, for gallstone ileus.

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.