SURGICAL INDICATION IN TRANSIENT OR RECURRENT INTUSSUSCEPTION IN PAEDIATRIC PATIENTS – A DILEMMA FOR MANAGEMENT

Abstract

Background – Intussusception is one of the most common abdominal emergencies dealt in early childhood by Paediatric Surgeons. We paediatric surgeon dealt various abdominal emergency in early childhood, Intussusception is the one of them. The decision to operate on patients of intussusception may sometimes be difcult, such as when the patients have transient intussusception without features of intestinal obstruction, like abdominal distension. Decision for surgery in patients of intussusception is very difcult in some circumstances like patient have complaint of abdominal pain only or transient intussusception. No other sign and symptoms of intestinal obstruction, abdominal distention. So, we did this study in such circumstances. to study the patients of recurrent intussusception, trans Aims and objectives - ient intussusception or newly diagnosed intussusception without intestinal obstruction, who had abdominal pain either off and on or continuous for long time. this is a Methods – retrospective study. It was conducted between January 2020 to December 2020 at Department of Paediatric surgery, Sir Padampat Mother and Child health institute, S.M.S. Medical College, Jaipur. Patient of persiste Conclusion - nt abdominal pain due to recurrent transient intussusception with or without classical triad is the matter of surgical intervention in paediatric patients.