"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—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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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

Bouveret's syndrome represents a rare variant of gallstone ileus, where a large gallstone migrates from the gallbladder via a bilioenteric fistula and becomes impacted in the duodenum or stomach ...

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 ...