Prediction and Risk Evaluation for Surgical Intervention in Small Bowel Obstruction †

Timur Buniatov, Matthias Maak, Anne Jacobsen, Franziska Czubayko, Axel Denz, Christian Krautz, Georg F. Weber, Robert Grützmann, Maximilian Brunner, Anke Mittelstädt · 2025

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Timur Buniatov and co-authors build a simple risk score for when a blocked small bowel needs surgery, in a study from 2025. The block is a common emergency, and the call between surgery and watchful care is often hard.

In near three hundred patients, most went to surgery and a small share settled with plain care. Five pre care facts split the groups: few past belly operations, low blood protein, free fluid on scans, air fluid lines on plain films, and a pinch point on CT. The weighted score split risk bands cleanly, from a fifth in the low band to near all in the high.

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CREATORTimur Buniatov, Matthias Maak, Anne Jacobsen, Franziska Czubayko, Axel Denz, Christian Krautz, Georg F. Weber, Robert Grützmann, Maximilian Brunner, Anke Mittelstädt
YEAR2025
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE30 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC12786543

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