OGILVIES-SYNDROME

In the last 5 years the authors had 10 patients with Ogilvie's syndrom e under observation. The frequency of the development of the syndrome among all patients who were in the department in this period of time w as 0.09%, those who underwent operation accounted for 0.1%. Mortality was 60%. Seven patients were treated by operation. In all patients the syndrome developed in a severe internal disease of an operative inter vention. The authors encountered the following clinical diagnostic sig ns in these patients: moistened tongue, mild tachycardia, absence of h ypertrophy of the antestinal wall, and no fecal masses found in the lu men of the large intestine on operation.