Intussusception


Intussusception

⇒ Intussusception is invagination of one intestinal segment into lumen of the adjucent segment.

⇒ Different types of the intussusception according to lactions:

Ileocolic

Jejunojejunal

Gastroesophageal

Dueodenojejunal

Cecocolic

⇒ In intussusception, 2 parts:

⇢ There is segment entrapped within the lumen  of the intussusception known as intussusceptum.

⇢ The engulfing segment is called as intussuscipiens.



Causes 

⇒ Most commonly enteritis, recent abdominal surgery, intestinal mural disease and intestinal parasitism

⇒ It is also causes in 8–33% of dogs that undergo renal allograft transplantation and 5% of dogs that undergo hematopoietic cell grafts.

Pathophysiology

 

⇒ The exact mechanism of intussusception generation is not known.

⇒ Many animals are young (< 1 year of age ), and have a history of recent enteritis.

⇒ The occurrence of an intussusception leads to a mechanical obstruction of the gastrointestinal tract. This obstruction can be either partial or complete.

⇒ Vascular compromised commonly occurred in intussusceptum and can occasionally occurred in intussuscipiens.

⇒ Compromise of venous drainage in the face of an intact arterial blood supply leads to marked edema and intramural haemorrhage that may eventually progress  to extravasation of blood into the intestinal lumen.

⇒ Due to that decrease in oxygen level to intussuscipiens in mucosal layer.

⇒ This can lead to the eventual failure of the mucosal barrier and loss of an effective barrier to bacteria and endotoxin entering the bloodstream from the bowel lumen.

⇒ There is vascular compromised leads to intestinal necrosis and eventually leakage of content into the peritoneal cavity.

⇒ This is leads to septic peritonitis.

In intussusception, gastrointestinal in which mechanical obstruction, illus

⇒ In cardiovascular, there is fluid loss leads to hypovolemia (vomiting and diarrhoea)


Clinical symptoms

⇒ Vomiting

⇒ Diarrhoea(in with fresh blood or melena)

⇒ Abdominal pain

⇒ Abdominal distention

⇒ Anorexia with weight loss

⇒ This all symptoms seen in acute condition or have been occurring for weeks or months.


Physical examination of intussusception

⇒ There is discomfort or abdominal pain in patient with intussusception.

⇒ In sever condition there is cardiovascular compromise.

⇒ A sausage shaped (thicken intestinal loop) mass palpated in the abdominal region.

⇒ In ileocolic intussusception. There is rectal prolapse occurring.it is differential from rectal prolapse via blind ending fornix at the part.

⇒ Jejunojenal intussusception more easier palpated than ileocolic intussusception because they are more common in caudal and ventral to abdomen.


Diagnosis 

⇒ A large “coiled spring” appearing filling defect may be present when barium within the lumen surrounds the intussusceptum.

⇒ In which contrast materials accumulates in the lumen between the intussusceptum and  intussuscepians.



⇒ Ultrasonography most common used in the detecting intussusception.

⇒ The ultrasonographic appearance of an intussusception in the transverse plane is that of a multilayered, target-like lesion (concentric hyperechoic and hypoechoic rings with an overall width greater than 8 to 9 mm) with associated proximal fluid accumulation and diminished intestinal motility.


Treatment

⇒ Immediate surgical intervention is the recommended treatment for intussusceptions.

⇒ Surgical correction should performed as soon as the patient is stable enough to withstand anesthesia and surgery.

⇒ A full abdomen exploratory should be performed to assist in the identifications of any potential underlying causes.

⇒ Some intussusception can be manually reduced by gently milking the intusussusceptam from within the intussusciptiens.

⇒ Upon reductions, the bowel may or may not by viable.

⇒ If the event that manual reduction is not possible or bowel has questionable viability, an intestinal resection or entero-anastomosis is necessary.

⇒ An anastomosis is a surgical connection between two structures. It usually means a connection that that is created between tubular structures, such as blood vessels or loops of intestine. For example, when part of intestine is surgically removed, the two remaining ends are sewn or stapled together.


Post operative care:-

 ⇒  Respective antibiotic for 3-5 days.
⇒  Antihistaminic: -inj.Clorpheniraminemalate 30-50mg (Totaldose) I/m 3-5days.
 NSAID:-inj. ketoprofen@ 3mg/kgB.wt I/M 3-5days.
 Regular antiseptic dressing with povidone iodine(Betadine).

 ⇒ Removal the suture 12th day after post operative care

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