Clinical manifestation of Meckel’s diverticulum in children

Abstract

The aim of the research was to study the clinical manifestations of Meckel’s diverticulum in children. Most often, a diverticulum causes strangulation obstruction in newborns and young children, manifested by a clinic of acute intestinal obstruction. It can cause intestinal intussusception with a characteristic clinical and radiological picture at an early age. The diagnosis of Meckel’s diverticulum as a source of obstruction is established only with surgical intervention. One of the frequent formidable complications of a diverticulum is intestinal bleeding, the cause of which can be the bleeding Meckel’s diverticulum, with the exception of the source of bleeding in the upper digestive tract. A diverticulum can occur in older children with diverticulitis, causing the clinical picture of an “acute abdomen”. Rarely, Meckel’s diverticulum can serve as a reservoir for swallowed foreign bodies of the digestive tract and can be diagnosed accidentally during x-ray examination for another pathology. The article provides an analysis of 18 children admitted to the surgical departments of the Pediatric Center over the past 15 years with the above complications.