Pseudointestinal obstruction

Intestinal pseudo-obstruction IPO is caused by neurosuppression, toxin stimulation or lesions of the intestinal smooth muscle itself, resulting in intestinal wall muscle motor dysfunction. It has clinical symptoms and signs of intestinal obstruction, but it has no internal or external mechanical properties Intestinal obstruction factors exist, so it is also called dynamic intestinal obstruction, which is a syndrome without intestinal obstruction. According to the course of disease, there are acute and chronic. Paralytic intestinal obstruction and spastic intestinal obstruction belong to acute pseudointestinal obstruction, and chronic pseudointestinal obstruction has two types: primary and secondary.

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