Adynamic Ileus

Causes

•           Inflammation (peritonitis)

•           Trauma (blunt, surgery, acute radiation enteritis)

•           Vagotomy

•           Drugs (anticholinergics, opiates, opioids, barbiturates)

•           Metabolic disorders (diabetes, hypokalemia, hypothyroidism)

•           Connective tissue diseases (scleroderma, dermatomyositis)

•           Malabsorption (sprue, lymphoma)

•           Ischemia (atherosclerosis, vaculitis, shock bowel)

•           Amyloidosis

•           Chronic idiopathic intestinal pseudo-obstruction (CIIPS))