Ogilvie syndrome causes
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Ahmed Elsaiey, MBBCH [2]
Overview
Overview
Common causes of Ogilvie’s syndrome include trauma, gynecological surgeries, major surgeries as hip replacement, and myocardial infarction. Other causes include causes of non mechanical bowel obstruction as acid base imbalance, acute pancreatitis, apoplexy, and cancers.
Causes
Causes
Non-mechanical bowel obstruction
- Acid-base imbalance
- Acute pancreatitis
- Apoplexy
- Brain tumor
- Cancer
- Cholecystolithiasis
- Connective tissue disease
- Diabetic coma
- Empyema
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Hypokalemia
- Lead poisoning
- Lymphoma
- Mechanical ventilation
- Mesenteric infarction
- Meropenem
- Osteomyelitis of the spine
- Ovarian torsion
- Pancreatitis
- Penetrating wounds
- Perinephric abscess
- Peritoneal carcinomatosis
- Peritonitis
- Pneumonia
- Porphyria
- Iatrogenic
- Psoas abscess
- Pyelonephritis
- Renal colic
- Retroperitoneal hematoma
- Spinal cord inflammation
- Spinal cord injury
- Spinal cord trauma
- Systemic infection
- Testicular torsion
- Ulcer perforation
- Uremia
- Urosepsis
- Vitamin deficiency
Pseudo-bowel obstruction
- Aerophagia
- Functional bowel disease
References
References
- ↑ Ogilvie Syndrome as a Postoperative Complication Patty L. Tenofsky, MD; R. Larry Beamer, MD; R. Stephen Smith, MD Arch Surg. 2000;135:682-687.
- ↑ Sreter KB, Barisic B, Popovic-Grle S (2017). “Pharmacogenomics and tailored polypharmacy: an 80-year-old lady with rosuvastatin-associated rhabdomyolysis and maprotiline-related Ogilvie’s syndrome”. Int J Clin Pharmacol Ther. 55 (5): 442–448. doi:10.5414/CP202784. PMID 28257284.
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