A new study published in the Journal of Digestive Diseases found a significant increase in gallstone disease in the U.S., ...

"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." ...

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 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 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 is rare and is associated with a mortality rate of 18%; 1 it is an uncommon complication of gallstones. The formation of a cholecystoenteric fistula after an acute cholecystitis ...

Clinical Snapshot Gallstone Ileus: A Rare Complication of Cholecystolithiasis. Dtsch Arztebl Int 2021; 118: 198 198 ...

Gallstone ileus, a rare complication of cholelithiasis (about 1%–3% of all intestinal ileus cases), is characterized by mechanical obstruction of the gastrointestinal tract caused by a dislodged ...

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 ...