title: Ultrasound guided hydrostatic reduction of intussusception in children at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital: an initial experience.
abstract: Intussusceptions is the telescoping or invagination of a portion of intestine (intussusceptum) into an adjacent segment (intussuscipiens). It is one of the common causes of bowel obstruction in infants and toddlers.Sonography has now been accepted as a method for guiding hydrostatic reduction of intussusception with tap water, normal saline or Ringer's lactate solution. This method is currently being used at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. It is a very simple, efficient, economical and quick method of managing intussusception. The duration of the procedure ranges between two minutes and thirty minutes, with the majority being under ten minutes. A total of twenty intussusceptions were managed in eighteen patients over a nine month period. In fifteen patients (75%) the intussusception was reduced successfully. In five patients (25%), the procedure failed to reduce the intussusceptions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, P. O. Box KB 77, Korle Bu, Accra, Ghana. ybmensah@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Mensah
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Glover-Addy
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Etwire
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Appeadu-Mensah
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Twum
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D003108:Colonic Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D004733:Enema / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching; D006801:Humans; D006874:Hydrostatic Pressure; D007223:Infant; D007443:Intussusception / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D012008:Recurrence; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014463:Ultrasonography