Dragana Vujović, Marija Lukac, Aleksandar Sretenović, Tamara Krstajić, Vesna Ljubić, Sanja Sindjić Antunović
INTRODUCTION: Intussusception is a common abdominal emergency in early childhood. It is idiopathic in more than 90% of cases with incidence of 1.5-4 per 1,000 live births. The treatment of choice is nonoperative hydrostatic or air enema reduction. OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was to evaluate the influence of clinical presentation and symptom duration in non-operative treatment, considering the indications for delayed enema reduction and its efficacy. METHODS: From the total number of 107 patients with intusussception, aged from 2 months to 14 years (median 9 months), 102 (95%) patients with ileo-colic intussusceptions were treated initially by ultrasound guided saline enema...
May 2014: Srpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo