title: [Cecum perforation, complication of an acute idiopathic dilatation of the colon, or Ogilvie's syndrome. Practical interest of various pathogenic data. Apropos of one case].
abstract: The authors report a new case of caecal perforation complicating acute dilatation of the colon without organic obstruction (Ogilvie's syndrome). They recall the two characteristics of this syndrome : abdominal distension due to colonic ileus, without any organic cause, and the constant coexistence of an associated pathological condition (traumatic, post-operative, infective, cardio-vascular, respiratory or neurological). The major complication is caecal perforation, announced by a clinical and radiological preperforative syndrome. The pathogenesis of Ogilvie's syndrome remains mysterious. Two facts are worth attention : the role of the sympathetic nerve in intestinal paralysis and the direct intervention of an extra-intestinal pathological factor in the onset of this syndrome. Hence two therapeutic consequences : the favourable effect of splanchnic infiltrations on intestinal motility, and the parallel course of acute colonic dilatation and the extra-intestinal disease.
mesh_terms: D002429:Cecal Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D003109:Colonic Diseases, Functional / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D004108:Dilatation, Pathologic / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000150:complications*; D007416:Intestinal Perforation / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013564:Sympathetic Nervous System / Q000503:physiopathology
vernacular_title: Perforation du caecum, complication d'une dilatation aiguë idiopatique du côlon ou syndrome d'Ogilvie. Intérêt pratique de quelques données pathogéniques.