malrotation

Most infants with malrotation develop symptoms during the first month of life.

Malrotation of the midgut during development can lead to volvulus.

This condition is found in malrotation of the intestine.

Caused by malrotation of the bowels while returning to the abdomen during development.

Malrotation doesn't cause symptoms in all people.

Simultaneously occurs a correction of index malrotation and deviation.

Malrotation can cause sudden twisting of the intestines.

One of his more famous patients was a geologist who came in with a rare form of intestinal malrotation.

Patients with chronic, uncorrected malrotation can have recurrent abdominal pain and vomiting.

A surgical operation called a Ladd procedure is performed to alleviate intestinal malrotation.

Malrotation can also be entirely asymptomatic.

If malrotation of the intestines causes symptoms, surgery usually is required to correct the position of the intestines.

In adults, the "whirlpool sign" of the superior mesenteric artery can be useful in identifying malrotation.

Some more serious causes of abdominal pain in children include appendicitis, lead poisoning, or problems with the intestines, such as intussusception or malrotation.

Midgut volvulus occurs in patients (usually in infants) that are predisposed because of congenital intestinal malrotation.

Two recent cases were from malrotation of the pouch and another from mesenteric vein thrombosis complicating pelvic sepsis.

In cases of malrotation complicated with volvulus, it demonstrates a corkscrew appearance of the distal duodenum and jejunum.

The digestive tract was also often abnormal; duodenal atresia, pyloric hyperplasia, malrotation and common mesentery were present in about half of the patients.

Other abdominal abnormalities that have been reported include inguinal hernias; malrotation of the gut; and abnormalities of the spleen.

Exclusion of metabolic, gastrointestinal, or central nervous system structural or biochemical disease, e.g., individuals with specific physical causes (such as intestinal malrotation)

Intestinal malrotation is a congenital anomaly of rotation of the midgut (embryologically, the gut undergoes a complex rotation outside the abdomen).

In addition, individuals with right atrial isomerism develop asplenia, a mid-line liver, malrotation of the small intestine and the presence of two morphologic right lungs.

Malrotation is a birth defect (congenital) caused by the incorrect positioning of a fetus's intestines in the abdomen while the fetus is still in the uterus.

Individuals with left atrial isomerism, by comparison, have two morphologic left atria, polysplenia, intestinal malrotation and two morphologic left lungs.

Upper gastrointestinal series is the modality of choice for the evaluation of malrotation as it will show an abnormal position of the duodeno-jejunal flexure (ligament of Treitz).