Treatment of pneumatosis cystoides coli by oxygen inhalation.
Endotracheal intubation and intermittent positive pressure ventilation were used to overcome the difficulties of oxygen therapy for pneumatosis cystoides coli in a 9-year-old child with Down's syndrome and a congenital heart defect. As compared to previously reported cases, a shorter duration of treatment and a lower arterial oxygen tension proved successful.
D002648:Child; D004314:Down Syndrome / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D010102:Oxygen Inhalation Therapy; D011006:Pneumatosis Cystoides Intestinalis / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy*; D011860:Radiography, Abdominal