Title

Intestinal obstructional outcome in paediatric age group: A general surgeon's prospective

Authors

Ritesh Yadav¹, Akhilesh Ratnakar², Sourabh Jain³,*, Talha Saad⁴, Harsh Kumar Goyal⁵, Amar Gangwani⁶ & Shashi Marko⁷

Affiliation

¹Department of General Medicine, Shrimant Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Medical College & Hospital, Shivpuri, Madhya Pradesh, India; ²Department of General Surgery, Bundelkhand Government Medical College, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India; ³Department of Emergency Medicine, Bundelkhand Government Medical College, Saga, Madhya Pradesh, India; ⁴Department of Respiratory Medicine, Bundelkhand Medical College Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India; ⁵Department of Surgery, Bundelkhand Medical College, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India; ⁶Department of Surgery, Bundelkhand Government Medical College, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh , India; ⁷Department of Pharmacology, Bundelkhand Government Medical College, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India; *Corresponding author

Email

Ritesh Yadav - E-mail: dr.ritesh123@yahoo.co.in

Akhilesh Ratnakar - E-mail: dr.akhilesh777@gmail.com

Sourabh Jain - E-mail: drsourabh24@gmail.com

Talha Saad - E-mail: dr.talhasaad@gmail.com

Harsh Kumar Goyal - E-mail: kumarharshg799@gmail.com

Amar Gangwani - E-mail: drgangwaniamar79@gmail.com

Shashi Marko - E-mail: drshashi0308@gmail.com

Article Type

Research Article

Date

Received June 1, 2026; Revised June 30, 2026; Accepted June 30, 2026, Published June 30, 2026

Abstract

Intestinal obstruction is one of the most common surgical emergencies seen in children. Therefore, it of interest to evaluate the pattern of disease occurrence, clinical presentation and treatment outcomes in children with intestinal obstruction. Infants (31.3%) are highly affected by intestinal obstruction than other age groups. Boy child exhibits number cases of intestinal obstruction than girl child. Imperforated anus (52.2%) is the most common congenital types of lesions causing the disease; Intussusception (69.5%) is the commoner acquired lesion and abdominal distention (32.8%) is the typical feature which was exhibited by many child cases. Thus, data shows the best outcome, early diagnosis and intervention are key essentials and hence will facilitate in enhancing knowledge on reduction of mortality rate of the cases.

Keywords

Intestinal obstruction, paediatric patients, congenital type of lesion

Citation

Yadav et al. Bioinformation 22(6): 3732-3735 (2026)

Edited by

Vini Mehta  

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.