Síndrome de obstrucción intestinal distal en pacientes adultos con fibrosis quística: Casos clínicos / Distal intestinal obstruction syndrome: Report of two cases with cystic fibrosis

ABSTRACT

Distal Intestinal Obstruction Syndrome (DIOS) has a 16 percent incidence among patients with Cystic Fibrosis (CF). It is characterized by an intestinal obstruction secondary to fecal impaction in distal ileum or cecum. We report two adult patients with DIOS. A female with CF and subjected to lung transplantation at the age of 13 years old. Five years later, she consulted for an intestinal obstruction. She was treated conservatively with a good clinical evolution. She had a new episode of DIOS eight months later that was also treated conservatively. A 31 year-old mole, subjected to bilateral lung transplantation nine years before, that was admitted to the hospital for a bronchiolitis. Three days after admission he started with an intestinal obstruction that was diagnosed as a DIOS. He was managed conservatively with a good clinical response.